Sledge-hammer
21hammer — [1] To hit with a hammer. [2] To ride hard and fast. [3] Someone who rides hard and fast. [4] Trucker slang for the accelerator pedal as in When we get past this parking lot we can really hit the hammer. [5] A hand tool with a (usually metal) and …
22Hammer throw — The modern or Olympic is an athletic throwing event where the object is to throw a heavy metal ball attached to a wire and handle. The name hammer throw is derived from older competitions where an actual sledge hammer was thrown. Such… …
23sledge — n. 1. [Eng.] Sled. 2. Sleigh. 3. Sledge hammer …
24Sledge (Transformers) — Sledge is the name of several characters in the various Transformers universes. Sledge has always been protrayed as a Decepticon aligned construction vehicle. Transformers: Generation 1Transformers character name =Sledge japanname = caption… …
25Sledge (disambiguation) — Sledge may refer to:* Sledge, a vehicle with runners for sliding * Sledge, Mississippi, United States * Sledgehammer, a large hammer * Sledge (Transformers) a fictional character. People with the surname Sledge:* Eugene Sledge (1923 2001), U.S.… …
26Sledge — (sl[e^]j), n. [Perhaps from sleds, pl. of sled, confused with sledge a hammer. See {Sled}, n.] 1. A strong vehicle with low runners or low wheels; or one without wheels or runners, made of plank slightly turned up at one end, used for… …
27hammer — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. strike, beat, drum, pound, ram. n. mallet, gavel, sledge. See impulse, repetition, instrumentality. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. maul, mallet, mace, club, gavel, sledge, peen, rammer, ram, flatter, nailer* …
28sledge — 1. noun /slɛʤ/ a) (or sledgehammer) a heavy, long handled maul or hammer used to drive stakes, wedges, etc. [based on information from Major Hill, Master of the Silver Mills, in 1662, descibing silver mining in Cardiganshire] They dig the Oar… …
29hammer — Synonyms and related words: Eustachian tube, air hammer, anvil, assault, attack, auditory apparatus, auditory canal, auditory meatus, auditory nerve, auditory ossicles, auditory tube, auricle, ball peen hammer, bang, barbarize, basilar membrane,… …
30sledge — English has two words sledge. The sledge [OE] of sledgehammer [15] was once a word in its own right, meaning ‘heavy hammer’. It goes back to the prehistoric Germanic base *slakh ‘hit’, source also of English slaughter, slay, etc. Sledge ‘snow… …
