hammerstone

American  

[ham-er-stohn] / ˈhæm ərˌstoʊn /

noun

Archaeology.

1. an ancient stone tool used as a hammer, as for chipping flint, processing food, or breaking up bones.

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hammerstone British  

/ ˈhæməˌstəʊn /

noun

1. a stone used as a hammer in the production of tools during the Acheulian period

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hammerstone Scientific  

/ hăm′ər-stōn′ /

1. A hand-held stone or cobble used by hominids perhaps as early as 2.5 million years ago as a crude pounding or pecking tool. Hammerstones were also used by early humans in striking flakes from stone cores to produce core tools.

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Example Sentences

Hammerstone owner Maria Klemperer-Johnson, 47, who has worked as a carpenter for over 20 years, believes the pandemic also played a role in the uptick, as people sought greater control over their lives, work and living spaces.

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At Hammerstone, the tiny-house building course includes learning some trigonometry: how to calculate the slope of a roof and how long the materials must be, based on that angle.

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Hammerstone is one of a handful of small carpentry schools around the country where women teach other women skills that many of us missed out on, somehow.

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The other women in my class at Hammerstone talk about this, too — having fathers or spouses who wouldn’t teach them or who would just do it for them, or feeling frustrated when men overexplain small details.

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“It just feels a lot safer to learn from a woman,” said Alexandra Haynes, 30, a web developer who took the tiny-house course with me at Hammerstone and who hopes to build her own cottage in the woods someday.

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