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hammerstones

hammerstones is the plural of hammerstone.

Meaning of hammerstone

Noun

hammerstone (plural hammerstones)

  1. A type of stone used to hit or strike in a similar way to a modern-day hammer.
    • Striking a hand-held isotropic block or cobble (a core) with a hammerstone initiates a cone-shaped crack at roughly 60° from the axis of force, exemplified by the hole in a plate glass window made by a pellet gun (18, 19 ).2001 March 2, Stanley H. Ambrose, “Paleolithic Technology and Human Evolution”, in Science, volume 291, number 5509, →DOI, pages 1748–1753

Questions about hammerstones

What is hammerstones the plural of?
Hammerstones is the plural of hammerstone.

Words near hammerstones in the dictionary

  1. Hammersmith & City
  2. Hammersmith and Fulham
  3. hammersmiths
  4. hammerspace
  5. hammerstone
  6. hammerstones
  7. Hammerstrom
  8. Hammerstroms
  9. hammertail
  10. hammertoe
  11. hammertoes

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