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ball-peen

ball-peen is the ellipsis of ball-peen hammer.

Meaning of ball-peen hammer

Noun

ball-peen hammer (plural ball-peen hammers)

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

Forms of ball-peen

pluralball-peens

Phrases with ball-peen

Questions about ball-peen

What is ball-peen the ellipsis of?
Ball-peen is the ellipsis of ball-peen hammer.

Words near ball-peen in the dictionary

  1. ball-park estimate
  2. ball-park estimates
  3. ball-park estimation
  4. ball-park estimations
  5. ball-parks
  6. ball-peen
  7. ball-peen hammer
  8. ball-peen hammers
  9. ball-peens
  10. ball-pein hammer
  11. ball-pein hammers

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