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noun
Peen  n.  
1.
A round-edged, or hemispherical, end to the head of a hammer or sledge, used to stretch or bend metal by indentation.
2.
The sharp-edged end of the head of a mason's hammer. (Spelt also pane, pein, and piend)


verb
Peen  v. t.  To draw, bend, or straighten, as metal, by blows with the peen of a hammer or sledge.





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"Peen" Quotes from Famous Books



... had, in his own phrase, "found salvation." There were those who were scandalized when they heard the language of Revivalism thus applied, but it exactly hit the truth as regards a great many of the converts to Home Rule. In a very few cases—e.g., in Gladstone's own—there had peen a gradual approximation to the idea of Irish autonomy, and the crisis of December, 1885, gave the opportunity of avowing convictions which had long been forming. But in the great majority of cases the conversion was instantaneous. ...
— Prime Ministers and Some Others - A Book of Reminiscences • George W. E. Russell
... offer me millions," cried Kolb, "but not ein vort from me shall dey traw. Haf I not peen in der army, ...
— Eve and David • Honore de Balzac
... Got gin I life, I sal pey yu pack agen. Lofen fater, de man dat wryts dis letir for mi is van Shames Macheyne, hi lifes shust a myl fe mi, hi hes pin unko kyn te mi sin efer I kam te de quintrie. Hi wes porn en Petic an kom our a sarfant fe Klesgou an hes peen hes nane man twa yeirs, an has sax plockimors wurkin til hem alrety makin tombako ilka tay. Heil win hem, shortly an a' te geir dat he hes wun hier an py a lerts kip at hem. Luck dat yu duina forket te vryt til mi ay, fan yu ket ony occashion: Got Almichte plis yu Fater an a de leve ...
— An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America • J. P. MacLean


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