单词 | rehammer |
释义 | rehammerv. transitive. To hammer again (in various senses). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > working with tools or equipment > work with tools or equipment [verb (transitive)] > driving or beating tools > again rehammer1773 1773 H. Horne Ess. Iron & Steel 133 There is no occasion either to throw away, or to rehammer, an instrument thus apparently injured. 1818 G. Graglia New Pocket Dict. Ital. & Eng. Langs. 428/1 Riconiare, to re-hammer. 1882 R. Grimshaw Saws (ed. 2) App. vi. 137 Some, however, entertain the wrong impression that a saw re-hammered will never run as well as when new. 1913 San Antonio (Texas) Light 25 Apr. 16/2 Upward of 100,000 other rivets had to be drawn and then rehammered. 1986 T. Hughes in Times 21 Apr. 16/2 Hammer it. Re-fold it, re-hammer it. 2001 USA Today (Nexis) 14 Sept. e8 Surprisingly lavish on a small budget and with an unusual milieu, the film has a tendency to hammer and rehammer home its points. Derivatives reˈhammering n. ΚΠ 1856 Mechanics' Mag. 6 Sept. 220/1 The iron used for this re-hammering has again become cold. 1919 A. W. Carmichael Pract. Ship Production vii. 214 Some [defective rivets] may be made good by rehammering, but others will have to be cut out and new rivets driven in their places. 2000 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 120 52/2 Any reconditioning of old blades probably involved reheating and rehammering at the forge. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1773 |
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