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n. (plural of steam hammer English)
Usage examples of "steam hammers".
From this immense stone-walled drydock, right through to the foundries, plate-shops, machine shops, steam hammers, drills and steam engines.
And his heart had been tripping like those steam hammers that broke the cement pavings of London.
At first he was reluctant to set his feet, which landed like steam hammers, on the pseudo-skeletons, but sidestepping them proved as futile as it was troublesome.
There were lathes, steam hammers, circular saws that cut steel rods and plates as though they were wood.
There were conveyors, furnaces, drop forges, steam hammers, forging presses, lathes.
A lot of the obstructive arguments about it had come from someone in Internal Security who thought interior decorators were large teams of men in white overalls with steam hammers, scaffolding and pots of paint.