hammer-blow
31Polish hammer — The Polish hammer is a stage combat or professional wrestling move in which a combatant clasps both hands together, raises them high above their head, and brings them down on an opponent usually their back, neck, or chest. The name Polish hammer… …
32Water hammer — Wa ter ham mer (Physics) 1. A vessel partly filled with water, exhausted of air, and hermetically sealed. When reversed or shaken, the water being unimpeded by air, strikes the sides in solid mass with a sound like that of a hammer. [1913… …
33Pick hammer — Pick Pick, n. [F. pic a pickax, a pick. See {Pick}, and cf. {Pike}.] 1. A sharp pointed tool for picking; often used in composition; as, a toothpick; a picklock. [1913 Webster] 2. (Mining & Mech.) A heavy iron tool, curved and sometimes pointed… …
34ham|mer|blow — «HAM uhr BLOH», noun. 1. the blow or impact of a hammer. 2. a) something resembling this, as the impact of an unbalanced wheel in a locomotive. b) Figurative: »[He] dodged the well aimed hammerblows of a Senate investigating committee (Time) …
35spring hammer — noun : a machine driven hammer whose blow is caused or increased by the extension of a compressed spring or the expansion of a body of compressed air …
36striking blow — A dent removal technique in which the hammer does not hit the panel straight on but is drawn to one side on hitting the surface, thus spreading the impact over a larger area …
37Bartolomeo Cristofori — Photo of a 1726 portrait of Bartolomeo Cristofori. The original was lost in the Second World War. Bartolomeo Cristofori di Francesco (May 4, 1655 – January 27, 1731) was an Italian maker of musical instruments, generally regarded as the inventor… …
38Lithic flake — Flakes may be produced by a variety of means. Force may be introduced by direct percussion (striking the core with a percussor such as a rock or antler), indirect percussion (striking the core with an object, sometimes referred to as a punch,… …
39Highland Railway River Class — Infobox Locomotive name = HR River class powertype = Steam caption= gauge=RailGauge|ussg designer = F. G. Smith boilerpressure = convert|160|psi|MPa|2|abbr=on|lk=on cylindercount = Two (outside) cylindersize = 21 × 28 in (533×711 mm)… …
40Alma Problem — The Alma Problem is an issue of concern to musicologists, historians and biographers who deal with the lives and works of Gustav Mahler and his wife Alma.Alma Mahler (ultimately Alma Mahler Gropius Werfel) was not only an articulate, well… …
