claw hammer
a hammer having a head with one end curved and cleft for pulling out nails.
Informal. a dress coat.
Origin of claw hammer
1Other words from claw hammer
- clawhammer, adjective
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How to use claw hammer in a sentence
I look at guns as any other tool for survival: A gun is an inanimate object that has a purpose, like a claw hammer.
Exchanging the claw-hammer for his office coat, Burns went out by way of the French window to the rear of the house.
Red Pepper Burns | Grace S. RichmondWe shut the door in the face of facts if they do not come in the regulation claw-hammer coat of full dress.
Mysterious Psychic Forces | Camille FlammarionThere's many on 'em, with claw-hammer coats and diamonds in their shirt-fronts, as hasn't got two quid to knock together.
In Friendship's Guise | Wm. Murray GraydonA key can sometimes be drawn by catching the end of it with a claw hammer and driving on the hub of pulley.
Farm Engines and How to Run Them | James H. Stephenson
We defer to her here precisely as we wear claw-hammer coats and low-neck dresses.
The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig | David Graham Phillips
British Dictionary definitions for claw hammer
a hammer with a cleft at one end of the head for extracting nails: Also called: carpenter's hammer
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