lump hammer

noun

1. a heavy hammer used for driving stakes or breaking stone

Example Sentences

The court heard Norgrove became furious when quizzed by his client and hit her eight times in the head with a lump hammer.

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Norgrove, 43, of Bromford Road, Sedgley, claimed to police he had left the property the previous day, but bloodstained items were found in a wheelie bin at a family address and a lump hammer discovered in his mother-in-law's shed.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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