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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..

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

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

Forge :: Forge (n.) A place or establishment where iron or other metals are wrought by heating and hammering; especially, a furnace, or a shop with its furnace, etc., where iron is heated and wrought; a smithy..

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..

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

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..

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

Mainspring :: Mainspring (n.) The principal or most important spring in a piece of mechanism, especially the moving spring of a watch or clock or the spring in a gunlock which impels the hammer. Hence: The chief or most powerful motive; the efficient cause of action..

Sear :: Sear (n.) The catch in a gunlock by which the hammer is held cocked or half cocked.

Tool :: Tool (n.) An instrument such as a hammer, saw, plane, file, and the like, used in the manual arts, to facilitate mechanical operations; any instrument used by a craftsman or laborer at his work; an implement; as, the tools of a joiner, smith, shoe-maker, etc.; also, a cutter, chisel, or other part of an instrument or machine that dresses work..

Martel De Fer :: Martel de fer () A weapon resembling a hammer, often having one side of the head pointed; -- used by horsemen in the Middle Ages to break armor..

Extend :: Extend (v. t.) To enlarge, as a surface or volume; to expand; to spread; to amplify; as, to extend metal plates by hammering or rolling them..

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

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

Spall :: Spall (v. t.) To reduce, as irregular blocks of stone, to an approximately level surface by hammering..

Hammered :: Hammered (imp. & p. p.) of Hamme.

Dress :: Dress (v. t.) To cut to proper dimensions, or give proper shape to, as to a tool by hammering; also, to smooth or finish..

Pickaxe :: Pickaxe (n.) A pick with a point at one end, a transverse edge or blade at the other, and a handle inserted at the middle; a hammer with a flattened end for driving wedges and a pointed end for piercing as it strikes..

Hammer :: Hammer (n.) Something which in firm or action resembles the common hamme.

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