forge-hammer

Did he even remember what a good forge-hammer felt like?

A Crown of Swords Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1996

Of all the hammers in this busy and hammering world, from the huge forge-hammer with which the brawny blacksmith deals telling blows upon the glowing iron and beats it into shape, to the tiny hammer that the watchmaker so deftly handles, the ivory-headed, ebony-handled instrument of the auctioneer is the most potent.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864 Various

Kiartan, who seemed to have a natural predominance over these supernatural prodigies, seizing a huge forge-hammer, struck the seal repeatedly on the head, and compelled it to disappear, forcing it down into the floor, as if he had driven a stake into the earth.

Folk-Lore and Legends; Scandinavian Various

Many of those old folk-tunes were closely connected with the history of the country to which they belonged; they were often the musical expression of the feelings, struggles, and passions of the people, and to Beethoven's sensitive ear they conveyed a deeper meaning than they did to the simple peasants who hummed or carolled them to the whirr of the spinning-wheel, the blows of the forge-hammer, or the speeding of the plough.

Story-Lives of Great Musicians Francis Jameson Rowbotham

And many of us have, at one and the same moment, to work and to weep, to toil whilst our hearts are beating like a forge-hammer; to labour whilst memories and thoughts that might enfeeble any worker, are busy with us.

Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII Alexander Maclaren 1868

The blacksmith's muscles are strengthened by wielding the forge-hammer, but unused they waste.

Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John Alexander Maclaren 1868

When the use of iron extended and larger ironwork came to be forged, for cannon, tools, and machinery, the ordinary hand-hammer was found insufficient, and the helve or forge-hammer was invented.

Industrial Biography Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 1863

Yet Crawshay found a ready market for all the iron he could make, and he is said to have counted the gains of the forge-hammer close by his house at the rate of a penny a stroke.

Industrial Biography Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 1863

This mass or lump was then to be raised to a white heat, and forged into malleable iron at the forge-hammer.

Industrial Biography Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 1863

When the use of iron extended and larger ironwork came to be forged, for cannon, tools, and machinery, the ordinary hand-hammer was found insufficient, and the helve or forge-hammer was invented.

Industrial Biography, Iron Workers and Tool Makers Samuel Smiles 1858