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hammerblow

hammerblow is the alternative form of hammer blow.

Meaning of hammer blow

Noun

hammer blow (plural hammer blows)

  1. A blow with a hammer.
  2. A pounding of the rails by the driving wheels of a steam locomotive caused by the inertia of unbalanced parts.
    • The balancing of the engine is unusual, with the rotating masses fully balanced and 40 per cent of the reciprocating masses statically balanced by lead weights in the coupled wheels; the reciprocrating balance weights are in the same phase on both sides of the engine. This system saves balance...1959 September, P. Ransome-Wallis, “The British Railways Class "9" 2-10-0s”, in Trains Illustrated, page 419

Forms of hammerblow

pluralhammerblows

Questions about hammerblow

What is hammerblow the alternative form of?
Hammerblow is the alternative form of hammer blow.

Words near hammerblow in the dictionary

  1. hammerable
  2. Hammerbarn
  3. Hammerbarns
  4. hammerbeam
  5. hammerbeams
  6. hammerblow
  7. hammerblows
  8. hammercloth
  9. hammercloths
  10. hammered
  11. hammered and sickled

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