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jackhammer
[ jak-ham-er ]
noun
- a portable drill operated by compressed air and used to drill rock, break up pavement, etc.
jackhammer
/ ˈdʒækˌhæmə /
noun
- a hand-held hammer drill, driven by compressed air, for drilling rocks, etc
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Example Sentences
Result: a supersonic, pulsating jackhammer of 1,700-degree F exhaust gas.
From The Daily Beast
This is all done with the subtlety of someone wielding a jackhammer.
From The Daily Beast
The cops, though, had put giant industrial earmuffs on, the kind of thing you saw jackhammer operators wearing.
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They began knocking scales loose with the jackhammer and cutting into the leathery skin underneath with sonocutters.
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The noise a jackhammer makes isn't pleasant at all, but if it doesn't make that noise, you figure it isn't functioning properly.
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