ball-peen hammer

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Noun

ball-peen hammer (plural ball-peen hammers)

  1. A hammer having, besides the normal flat head, an opposite, rounded or peening head.
    • 1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 284:
      He stumbles forward helplessly as something terrible happens to his back. It feels like being massaged with a hundred ballpeen hammers.

Synonyms

  • engineer's hammer
  • machinist's hammer

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