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Tack hammer   /tæk hˈæmər/   Listen
Tack hammer

noun
1.
A light hammer that is used to drive tacks.






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"Tack hammer" Quotes from Famous Books



... leather, and to do this we drilled a hole of the diameter of the rivet in a block of wood, and putting this block over the washer, with the end of the rivet projecting into the hole, we hammered the block until the washer was forced down tight against the leather. Then taking a light tack hammer we battered down the end of the rivet onto the washer. Care was taken to do this hammering very lightly, otherwise the end would have been bent ...
— The Scientific American Boy - The Camp at Willow Clump Island • A. Russell Bond

... new article of manufacture, a tack hammer, constructed in the manner and With the characteristics herein specified, for the ...
— Scientific American, Vol. 17, No. 26 December 28, 1867 • Various

... the hand. He began to swear so wondrously that a nervous laugh went along the regimental line. The officer's profanity sounded conventional. It relieved the tightened senses of the new men. It was as if he had hit his fingers with a tack hammer at home. ...
— The Red Badge of Courage - An Episode of the American Civil War • Stephen Crane

... as a new article of manufacture, a tack hammer, constructed in the manner and With the characteristics herein specified, ...
— Scientific American, Vol. 17, No. 26 December 28, 1867 • Various



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