lump hammer
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Perhaps it was because I was there with my father – but it may also be because you are less likely to be patted on the thigh, condescended to by a male head of department, asked to make the tea and called a “lovely creature” when you have a lump hammer in your hand.
From The Guardian
A man who murdered his wife with a lump hammer after losing his temper when she failed to make him a meal has been jailed for life.
From BBC
The court heard he fractured her skull at their home in Dam Lane in Woolston, on 4 February, by striking her on the head with a pan before then bludgeoning her with a lump hammer.
From BBC
All it takes is a flask of liquid nitrogen, a lump hammer and a little expertise, to make yourself instantly £5 poorer.
From BBC
That is a big, bullying herb which, as Tom Jaine once wrote of Jamie Oliver, many modern burger kitchens use, “like a demolition-man uses a lump hammer”.
From The Guardian
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