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tack hammer

noun

  1. a light hammer for driving tacks, often magnetized to hold the tack to the head.


tack hammer

noun

  1. a light hammer for driving tacks
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of tack hammer1

First recorded in 1885–90
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Example Sentences

In his emotion he dropped the tack-hammer within an ace of my head.

He made imitations of tremendous muscular power with a tack-hammer that happened in his way for a sledge.

Blue Bonnet took the tack hammer from Amanda's apathetic hand and rapped for order.

It was a great screw-driver and tack hammer and invaluable to gouge things out of deep cracks.

Hit one of these studs even a light blow with a tack hammer, gentlemen, and the mine would explode.

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