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

Plate :: Plate (v. t.) To cover or overlay with gold, silver, or other metals, either by a mechanical process, as hammering, or by a chemical process, as electrotyping..

Cock :: Cock (n.) The hammer in the lock of a firearm.

Successive :: Successive (a.) Following in order or in uninterrupted course; coming after without interruption or interval; following one after another in a line or series; consecutive; as, the successive revolution of years; the successive kings of Egypt; successive strokes of a hammer..

Hammer :: Hammer (n.) Also, a person of thing that smites or shatters; as, St. Augustine was the hammer of heresies..

Hammerhead :: Hammerhead (n.) A shark of the genus Sphyrna or Zygaena, having the eyes set on projections from the sides of the head, which gives it a hammer shape. The Sphyrna zygaena is found in the North Atlantic. Called also hammer fish, and balance fish..

Yellowammer :: Yellowammer (n.) See Yellow-hammer.

Gold-beating :: Gold-beating (n.) The art or process of reducing gold to extremely thin leaves, by beating with a hammer..

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..

Bucker :: Bucker (n.) A broad-headed hammer used in bucking ore.

Refractory :: Refractory (a.) Resisting ordinary treatment; difficult of fusion, reduction, or the like; -- said especially of metals and the like, which do not readily yield to heat, or to the hammer; as, a refractory ore..

Use :: Use (v. t.) A stab of iron welded to the side of a forging, as a shaft, near the end, and afterward drawn down, by hammering, so as to lengthen the forging..

Marteline :: Marteline (n.) A small hammer used by marble workers and sculptors.

Helve :: Helve (n.) The lever at the end of which is the hammer head, in a forge hammer..

Shingling :: Shingling (n.) The process of expelling scoriae and other impurities by hammering and squeezing, in the production of wrought iron..

Hammer-beam :: Hammer-beam (n.) A member of one description of roof truss, called hammer-beam truss, which is so framed as not to have a tiebeam at the top of the wall. Each principal has two hammer-beams, which occupy the situation, and to some extent serve the purpose, of a tiebeam..

Gladeye :: Gladeye (n.) The European yellow-hammer.

Anvil :: Anvil (n.) An iron block, usually with a steel face, upon which metals are hammered and shaped..

Hammer :: Hammer (n.) That part of a clock which strikes upon the bell to indicate the hour.

Thump :: Thump (n.) The sound made by the sudden fall or blow of a heavy body, as of a hammer, or the like..

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