Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A bar of iron, about 2½ feet in length, used in rock-blasting for driving the tamping into the bore-hole after the charge has been introduced.
- noun A long iron bar for pressing or tamping the ballast under the ties of a railway-track. It has a heavy square flat head Set at an angle on a curved stem and a pointed top or handle.
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Examples
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He put in the powder and tamping, and asked the other to hand him the tamping-bar.
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