Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A hammer for breaking or rough-dressing stones.
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Examples
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As I have said, they do not seem to have known the proper way of putting the handle on to a stone-hammer; and, though they used bronze, they had not applied it to making such things as knives and spear-heads.
Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern Edward Burnett Tylor
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The modern hog is to his progenitor as the man with the steam-hammer to the man with the stone-hammer, -- infinitely more useful, though not so free.
The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm John Williams Streeter
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One more man appeared at the clerk's door: he was a powerful fellow with a horse-pistol and a stone-hammer.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876 Various
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With the primitive stone-hammer and chisel very little could be done.
Industrial Biography Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 1863
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Then, with a sudden hurry of violence and swearing horribly, he threw the bottle from him, and stooped; and I saw in his hand a stone-hammer with a long heavy handle.
Great Expectations Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1861
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Then, with a sudden hurry of violence and swearing horribly, he threw the bottle from him, and stooped; and I saw in his hand a stone-hammer with a long heavy handle.
Great Expectations 1860
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With the primitive stone-hammer and chisel very little could be done.
Industrial Biography, Iron Workers and Tool Makers Samuel Smiles 1858
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Migo was upon him in an instant, and felled him to the earth with a blow of his stone-hammer.
The Bushman — Life in a New Country Edward Wilson Landor 1844
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Then, with a sudden hurry of violence and swearing horribly, he threw the bottle from him, and stooped; and I saw in his hand a stone-hammer with a long heavy handle.
Great Expectations Charles Dickens 1841
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For his one recorded reminiscence of his four years of dungeon-life is, that "he had such abundant leisure for promenading that he wore in the rock pavement a little path as neatly as if it had been done with a stone-hammer." [
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. Various
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