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triphammer
or trip ham·mer
[ trip-ham-er ]
triphammer
/ ˈtrɪpˌhæmə /
noun
- a power hammer that is raised or tilted by a cam and allowed to fall under gravity
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Word History and Origins
Origin of triphammer1
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Example Sentences
For all its digits, the Multistrada retains the raw, triphammer music, the ticking of hell’s complication watch.
From Wall Street Journal
Queer, creepy feelings seized my legs, my eyes were full of solar spectrums, my throat a furnace and my heart beat like a triphammer.
From Project Gutenberg
Because it becomes alike electrified as the sun, and the law of repulsion strikes it like the blow of a mammoth triphammer and hurls it in the opposite direction.
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He could put de glass of water on his head and make his feet go like triphammers and sound like de snaredrum.
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Its underside buckled from triphammer contact with rock slides and a few larger logs.
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