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trip-hammer

trip-hammer is the alternative spelling of trip hammer.

Meaning of trip hammer

Noun

trip hammer (plural trip hammers)

  1. A powered machine used in a forge which repeatedly strikes work placed on an anvil.

Forms of trip-hammer

pluraltrip-hammers

Questions about trip-hammer

What is trip-hammer the alternative spelling of?
Trip-hammer is the alternative spelling of trip hammer.

Words near trip-hammer in the dictionary

  1. trip up
  2. trip wire
  3. trip wires
  4. trip working
  5. trip workings
  6. trip-hammer
  7. trip-hammers
  8. trip-hop
  9. trip-sit
  10. trip-sitter
  11. trip-sitting

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Adapted from Wiktionary: trip-hammer (page history and authors); trip hammer (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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