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Rock-drilling tool
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jackhammer
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A jackhammer ( pneumatic drill or demolition hammer in British English) is a pneumatic or electro-mechanical tool that combines a hammer directly with a chisel . It was invented by William Mcreavy who then sold the patent to Charles Brady King . Hand-held ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
jackhammer \jackhammer\ n. a hammer having a strong steel cutting blade, driven by compressed air in multiple rapid strokes, and used for cutting through pavement, concrete, or other hard substances. Syn: air hammer, pneumatic hammer.
Usage examples of jackhammer.
Hoppie had once again calmly seated himself on the tiny stool, while Jackhammer Smit was snorting and throwing punches at an imaginary opponent soon to become Hoppie.
He followed this with several more blows to the head but his punches lacked strength and Jackhammer, unable to reply, his pride keeping him on his feet, absorbed the extra punishment.
They were several hundred miles above the surface of the earth in an ancient spaceship that he had jackhammered from a rock ledge.
Other team members attached catch nets and grappling cables to the piece of stone before it could snap free of the cliffside, while the strongest workers used methane-powered jackhammers and laser cutters the size of cannon to split the rock.
Soldi made his examination of the sandstone ledge while the surveyors started the compressor and manhandled the jackhammer into position.
Down on the left, the jackhammer rattle of riveting guns sounded, and the tame lightnings of arc welders flashed blue in the dark.
This is what happens when you jackhammer the Ten Commandments, silence those who would pray in public school, and allow the ACLU to remove every semblance of faith from public view.
The Boston Crab, the Scissors, the Piledriver, the Jackhammer, the Body Slam.
The drift of a jukebox's output, the jackhammer explosion of rap music out of a ghettoblaster portable stereo, the snarling of a pair of mongrels pulling apart the contents of a trashcan.
And then he was laughing and half crying, remembering the very beginning of their relationship, thirty-three years ago, when a weird twelve-year-old kid had come slogging down into a dusty granite quarry in Barre, Vermont, and asked him to put down his jackhammer for a few minutes and take a little test that could be really important.
I wrestled him to the bed, all the time soaking up a punishing series of kicks to the shin and a jackhammering of his knees to my crotch.
Gadgets held the trigger back, the heavy weapon jackhammering in his hands, Blancanales guiding the belt of cartridges.
Laura snorted coke as her husband mounted me, his rigid tool jackhammering my tender pussy.
Jack mumbles, as a torrent of images crashes down on his eyeballs and jackhammers its way in through his ears like the superego of a disembodied giant.
The noise was much louder here, and their footsteps were punctuated by shouts, the steady cadence of nailguns, and the stutter of jackhammers.