Definition of ball-peen hammer
: a hammer having a hemispherical peen at one end of its head
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This is the issue as the grunters, hold the ropers, chop the wooders, culture clubbers would just as soon be hit repeatedly by a ball-peen hammer than not play football in the fall.
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Joe's weapon of choice is a ball-peen hammer—the same kind of tool that his father used on Joe and his mother.
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Armed with his weapon of choice, a ball-peen hammer, Joe gets the job done with a swiftness and efficiency that find an echo in Ramsay's filmmaking.
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Buy a center punch and strike it with a ball-peen hammer.
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Wailing away at an aluminum painting support with a ball-peen hammer to dent and dimple the surface before hitting it with lacquer and polyester resin paints might not seem like the best idea.
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First Known Use of ball-peen hammer
circa 1875
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