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Flicker :: Flicker (n.) The golden-winged woodpecker (Colaptes aurutus); -- so called from its spring note. Called also yellow-hammer, high-holder, pigeon woodpecker, and yucca..

Strike :: Strike (v. i.) To hit; to collide; to dush; to clash; as, a hammer strikes against the bell of a clock..

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

Battering-ram :: Battering-ram (n.) A blacksmith's hammer, suspended, and worked horizontally..

Flintlock :: Flintlock (n.) A lock for a gun or pistol, having a flint fixed in the hammer, which on striking the steel ignites the priming..

Water Hammer :: Water hammer () A concussion, or blow, made by water in striking, as against the sides of a pipe or vessel containing it..

Pane :: Pane (n.) The narrow edge of a hammer head. See Peen.

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..

Forging :: Forging (n.) The act of shaping metal by hammering or pressing.

Batter :: Batter (v. t.) To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly..

Puddle-ball :: Puddle-ball (n.) The lump of pasty wrought iron as taken from the puddling furnace to be hammered or rolled.

Sheep''s-foot :: Sheep's-foot (n.) A printer's tool consisting of a metal bar formed into a hammer head at one end and a claw at the other, -- used as a lever and hammer..

Shaft :: Shaft (n.) The handle or helve of certain tools, instruments, etc., as a hammer, a whip, etc..

Malleate :: Malleate (v. t.) To hammer; to beat into a plate or leaf.

Smith :: Smith (n.) One who forges with the hammer; one who works in metals; as, a blacksmith, goldsmith, silversmith, and the like..

Bloom :: Bloom (n.) A large bar of steel formed directly from an ingot by hammering or rolling, being a preliminary shape for further working..

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..

Upset :: Upset (v. t.) To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends..

Shammer :: Shammer (n.) One who shams; an impostor.

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

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