Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In metal-working, the act or practice of hammering when cold.
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Now, he had two hammers, and a makeshift anvil created by cold-hammering sheet alloy around a stone block wedged between the sides of a green spruce log buried in the ground.
Fall of Angels Modesitt, L. E. 1996
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