tack hammer

The phrase means, “the nail that sticks out always gets hit by a hammer.”

The noise of the hammer is always in his ears, and his eye is upon the pattern of the vessel he maketh.

The stratagem worked, because the ships went about from one tack to the other without being seen by the Dutch.

With a hammer the boy knocked off some of the slats of the small box in which Squinty had made his journey.

Whereas Lessard had acted the martinet with MacRae, he took another tack and became the very essence of affability toward me.

I suppose the hammer falls back more slowly from the string, and that makes the tone sing longer.