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单词 bush-hammer
释义

bush-hammern.

Etymology: probably < German bosz-hammer, in same sense, < boszen to beat.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈbush-hammer.
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.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > driving or beating tools > [noun] > hammer > hammer for use on stone
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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.
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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or constructing with stone > build or construct with stone [verb (transitive)] > other processes
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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).
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