单词 | bush-hammer |
释义 | bush-hammern. U.S. A mason's large breaking hammer, often having square ends cut into pyramidal points; also a hammer for dressing millstones, usually having detachable steel-bits in the dressing face. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > driving or beating tools > [noun] > hammer > hammer for use on stone pick1357 kevel-mell1360 stone-hammer1411 knapper1787 walling hammer1841 marteline1875 bush-hammer1885 1885 Harper's Mag. Mar. 558/1 They took the bush-hammer out..that the ladies might see the varieties with five, six, eight, and ten edges, which gave the granite the slightly lined or ridged appearance. Derivatives bush-hammer v. To strike or dress with the bush-hammer. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or constructing with stone > build or construct with stone [verb (transitive)] > other processes raggle1525 pin1680 rusticate1715 heart1776 tool1815 boast1823 fine-axe1834 ashlar1836 riprap1837 stroke1842 ditch1865 wraggle1875 bush-hammera1884 thorough-bind1884 a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 148/1 Sandstone is seldom bush-hammered, as the stunning makes it scale. a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 148/1 Rough-pointing, tooth-axing, bush-hammering. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.a1884 |
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