Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A tinsmith's hammer, having a square head and a chisel-shaped peon.
- noun A light hand-hammer used for swaging the teeth of saws in setting them. It has a special shape to enable one tooth to be hit without striking the next also.
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Sivert, and was on his feet in a moment, giving the setting-hammer to his father, and taking the sledge himself.
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