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Malleus :: Malleus (n.) The outermost of the three small auditory bones, ossicles; the hammer. It is attached to the tympanic membrane by a long process, the handle or manubrium. See Illust. of Far..

Drop :: Drop (n.) A drop press or drop hammer.

Stonebuck :: Stonebrearer (n.) A machine for crushing or hammering stone.

Hammer :: Hammer (v. i.) To be busy forming anything; to labor hard as if shaping something with a hammer.

Drawing :: Drawing (n.) The process of stretching or spreading metals as by hammering, or, as in forming wire from rods or tubes and cups from sheet metal, by pulling them through dies..

Hammer-less :: Hammer-less (a.) Without a visible hammer; -- said of a gun having a cock or striker concealed from sight, and out of the way of an accidental touch..

Gold-hammer :: Gold-hammer (n.) The yellow-hammer.

Tilt :: Tilt (n.) See Tilt hammer, in the Vocabulary..

Tilting :: Tilting (n.) The process by which blister steel is rendered ductile by being forged with a tilt hammer.

Cabbling :: Cabbling (n.) The process of breaking up the flat masses into which wrought iron is first hammered, in order that the pieces may be reheated and wrought into bar iron..

Loop :: Loop (n.) A mass of iron in a pasty condition gathered into a ball for the tilt hammer or rolls.

Bell-faced :: Bell-faced (a.) Having the striking surface convex; -- said of hammers.

Harpsichord :: Harpsichord (n.) A harp-shaped instrument of music set horizontally on legs, like the grand piano, with strings of wire, played by the fingers, by means of keys provided with quills, instead of hammers, for striking the strings. It is now superseded by the piano..

Porter :: Porter (n.) A bar of iron or steel at the end of which a forging is made; esp., a long, large bar, to the end of which a heavy forging is attached, and by means of which the forging is lifted and handled in hammering and heating; -- called also porter bar..

Comb :: Comb (n.) The thumbpiece of the hammer of a gunlock, by which it may be cocked..

Knocker :: Knocker (n.) One who, or that which, knocks; specifically, an instrument, or kind of hammer, fastened to a door, to be used in seeking for admittance..

Poll :: Poll (n.) The broad end of a hammer; the but of an ax.

Tilter :: Tilter (n.) One who operates a tilt hammer.

Flint :: Flint (n.) A piece of flint for striking fire; -- formerly much used, esp. in the hammers of gun locks..

Hammer :: Hammer (n.) The padded mallet of a piano, which strikes the wires, to produce the tones..

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