claw hammer

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noun

a hammer having a head with one end curved and cleft for pulling out nails.

Informal. a dress coat.

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Origin of claw hammer

First recorded in 1760–70

OTHER WORDS FROM claw hammer

clawhammer, adjective

Words nearby claw hammer

claw-and-ball foot, clawback, claw bar, clawed, claw foot, claw hammer, claw hatchet, claw off, claw setting, Clawson, claxon

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.
The Most Dangerous Novel in America?|Sara Nelson|April 15, 2009|DAILY BEAST
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. Richmond
We 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 Flammarion
There'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 Graydon

A 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

claw hammer

noun

a hammer with a cleft at one end of the head for extracting nailsAlso called: carpenter's hammer

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