hammerstone

[ ham-er-stohn ]

noun

, Archaeology.

1. an ancient stone tool used as a hammer, as for chipping flint, processing food, or breaking up bones.

hammerstone

/ ˈhæməˌstəʊn /

noun

1. a stone used as a hammer in the production of tools during the Acheulian period

hammerstone

/ hăm′ər-stōn′ /

1. A hand-held stone or cobble used by hominids perhaps as early as 2.5 million years ago as a crude pounding or pecking tool. Hammerstones were also used by early humans in striking flakes from stone cores to produce core tools .

Example Sentences

Hammerstone is one of a handful of small carpentry schools around the country where women teach other women skills that many of us missed out on, somehow.

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At Hammerstone, students are encouraged to start with two days of basic skills.

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Another teacher at Hammerstone, Christina Alario, 36, said this is deliberate.

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At Hammerstone, the tiny-house building course includes learning some trigonometry: how to calculate the slope of a roof and how long the materials must be, based on that angle.

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The client is a woman who plans to live in it and who has paid for the material costs, while we students pay Hammerstone for the instruction, then provide the labor while we learn.

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