tack hammer

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noun

a light hammer for driving tacks, often magnetized to hold the tack to the head.

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Origin of tack hammer

First recorded in 1885–90

Words nearby tack hammer

tack, tackboard, tack claw, tacker, tacket, tack hammer, tackie, tackies, tackle, tackling, tack rag

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How to use tack hammer in a sentence

Pulling oil from the tar sands is costly, even more so when you tack transportation costs on top.
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Next, the GOP should hammer away at how our roads, bridges, and tunnels are crumbling, and push for an infrastructure initiative.
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If we enter with hammer in hand, we may leave with merely dust and rubble on our faces.
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In this way, certain cognitive mechanisms can act like a hammer too eager for nails.
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The phrase means, “the nail that sticks out always gets hit by a hammer.”
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The noise of the hammer is always in his ears, and his eye is upon the pattern of the vessel he maketh.
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The stratagem worked, because the ships went about from one tack to the other without being seen by the Dutch.
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With a hammer the boy knocked off some of the slats of the small box in which Squinty had made his journey.
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Whereas Lessard had acted the martinet with MacRae, he took another tack and became the very essence of affability toward me.
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I suppose the hammer falls back more slowly from the string, and that makes the tone sing longer.
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British Dictionary definitions for tack hammer

tack hammer

noun

a light hammer for driving tacks

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