tilt-hammer

This process was formerly performed by striking the ball of iron repeatedly with a tilt-hammer.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873 Various

As he stood swaying his right arm like a huge tilt-hammer, up and down, his swarthy countenance lighted up with excitement, he appeared amid the smoke, the fire, the thunder of his eloquence like Vulcan in his armory forging thoughts for the gods!

Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail Harry A. Lewis

Clerks hummed it serving customers at shop counters, artisans thundered it at their toils to the time-beat of sledge and of tilt-hammer, boys whistled it on the streets, ladies warbled it in parlors, and house-maids repeated it to the clink of crockery in kitchens.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 Various

These are bent around an iron rod as before; but in place of the anvil and tilt-hammer, they are run through rolling-machines, analogous in some respects to those by which railway-iron is made.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863 Various

The child lives under a tilt-hammer of commandment, beaten to the ground as fast as he attempts to rise.

Christian Nurture. 1802-1876 1876

It was about 8 o'clock, and, as he neared the shop, he heard the click of the tilt-hammer, which told that the doctor was at work.

John and Mary; or, The Fugitive Slaves, a Tale of South-Eastern Pennsylvania 1873

It was dinner-hour, and all the men had gone but Pannell, who was sitting on a piece of iron out in the yard calmly cutting his bread and meat into squares and then masticating them as if it were so much tilt-hammer work that he had to do by the piece.

Patience Wins War in the Works George Manville Fenn 1870

The collier or collyer was the labourer who cut the timber, stacked it in heaps, charked it, and conveyed the coal on pack-horses to the iron bloomary and forge, situated in some neighbouring valley, where a stream of water gave motion to the bellows and the tilt-hammer.

The Coal Question~ Of the Iron Trade William Stanley Jevons 1865

Watt afterwards made a tilt-hammer for Mr. Wilkinson of Bradley Forge, of 7 1/2 cwt., and it made 300 blows a minute.

Industrial Biography Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 1863

The tilt-hammer was another form in which it was used, the smaller kinds being worked by the foot.

Industrial Biography Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 1863