tack hammer

American  

noun

1. a light hammer for driving tacks, often magnetized to hold the tack to the head.

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tack hammer British  

noun

1. a light hammer for driving tacks

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Etymology

Origin of tack hammer

First recorded in 1885–90

Example Sentences

But Patience was busy with the tack hammer.

From The S. W. F. Club by Jacobs, Caroline E. (Caroline Elliott Hoogs)

Blue Bonnet took the tack hammer from Amanda's apathetic hand and rapped for order.

From Blue Bonnet in Boston or, Boarding-School Days at Miss North's by Goss, John

So absorbed was she in her hammering that at first she neither heard nor saw Portlaw when he finally ventured to advance; and when she did she dropped the tack hammer in her astonishment.

From The Firing Line by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)

I’ve made more fuss before now over pounding my finger with a tack hammer.

From Once to Every Man by Fischer, Anton Otto

"Putting a synthetic tallow-wax molecule together would be like trying to build a spaceship with a jackknife and a tack hammer."

From Four-Day Planet by Piper, H. Beam