peen

[ peen ]

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noun

a wedgelike, spherical, or other striking end of a hammer head opposite the face.

to enlarge, straighten, or smooth with a peen.
to strengthen (a metal surface) by light hammering or by bombardment with steel balls or shot.

peen

/ piːn /

the end of a hammer head opposite the striking face, often rounded or wedge-shaped

tr to strike with the peen of a hammer or with a stream of metal shot in order to bend or shape (a sheet of metal)

Origin of peen¹

1505–15; earlier pen < Scandinavian; compare Swedish, Norwegian pen (noun) in same sense (perhaps < German Pinne peen). See pin

Origin of peen¹

C17: variant of pane, perhaps from French panne, ultimately from Latin pinna point

He has shown his appreciation with constant references to his peen in any and every media outlet.

Remember when you had to flash a little peen in the movies to get some cred as a leading man (miss you, Harvey Keitel)?

A strip of galvanized metal is placed over the depressions in the die and a ball-peen hammer used to drive the metal into the die.

Among the listeners were the brothers Pinzon (peen-thn), experienced seamen from the neighboring port of Palos (pahls).

Of dot Sobber fellow peen guilty he ought to be hung up on der pottom of der sea alretty quick!

Oof you hatn't done vat you dit, I bed you somet'ing der modor-car vould haf peen a lot oof junk.

Py shinks, I haf peen vatching as sharp as some veasels, aber I don'd see nodding.

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