peen

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  1. noun The end of a hammerhead opposite the flat striking surface, often wedge-shaped or ball-shaped and used for chipping, indenting, and metalworking.
  2. transitive verb To hammer, bend, or shape with a peen.

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  • How can you say that a sledgehammer is better than a ball-peen hammer? —  Erin McKean redefines the dictionary
  • He has also broken my skull open with the ball-peen hammer of his awesomeness.
  • But the profile view looks like some scrub brush in the peen area. —  Dlisted - Be Very Afraid
  • Maybe this little event will help wake people up to the fact that their "friend" status on some people's page isn't worth all that much, and social networks can go back to being actual social networks, instead of being an extension of high school drama and an e-peen contest. —  Original Signal - Transmitting Digg
  • Why not just take a ball-peen hammer and hit me with it already!
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  1. Probably of Scandinavian origin.

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  1. Also pean, pene, pein, piend; apparently from German pinne, the peen of a hammer: see pin and pane.
  2. from peen, n.
 

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