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clawhammer

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Word definitions for clawhammer in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Clawhammer is a varied banjo playing style and a common component of American old-time music . The principal difference between clawhammer style and other styles is the picking direction. Traditional picking styles ( classic banjo ), including those for ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a hammer with a cleft at one end for pulling nails [syn: carpenter's hammer , claw hammer ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (uncountable) A fingerpicking technique primarily used by banjo players, but also by some guitarists. 2 (alternative spelling of claw hammer English)

Usage examples of clawhammer.

Your Truculence," Retief spoke up, "but Ambassador Clawhammer only allows his staff to be decapitated at Tuesday morning Staff Meetings.

Ambassador Clawhammer appeared, ornate in the Burgundy cutaway and puce jodhpurs specified by CDT Regs for early evening ceremonial wear.

Hoobrik broke off, pushed past Clawhammer, rushed forward with outstretched arms, narrowly missing a small water hazard, to embrace Retief, who had just appeared on the scene.

Farrell decided that he couldn’t reasonably be expected to reply and turned sharply left on Paige Street, suddenly recalling the clinic somewhere around there and the soft, rainy night much like this one when he had dragged Clawhammer Perry Brown into Emergency, crying with the certainty that he could feel Perry’s body chilling every moment on his shoulder.

He stood on tiptoe for a moment, looking for the Blue Zoo, the warty indigo frog of a Victorian in which he and Clawhammer Perry Brown and a Korean string trio had shared the top floor rent-free for almost three months, before the party downstairs ended and the owner noticed them.

There’s no time to worry about it: the Mayor’s clawhammer probes again, and she calls a secondary codewall into existence, reinforcing her defense.

A human male in a golden torc, wearing a clawhammer cutaway in the colors of the Creator Guild, stumbled moistly toward the King and Queen, spattering the other occupants of the royal box as he waved his arms in greeting.

Greg-Donnet patted the machine, tittering, and tucked his copy of the survey into a pocket beneath one of the tails of his clawhammer coat.

He suppressed it and sat on a warm wine-and-saffron Oriental carpet with a wet clawhammer and the pile of paper towels.

Just as a carpenter had a miter box and a dovetail jig and a clawhammer in his box.

He got a long-handled screwdriver, a clawhammer, a pair of pliers, and an electric lantern from the workroom and carried them upstairs.