tack hammer

American  

noun

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

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tack hammer British  

noun

1. a light hammer for driving tacks

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Etymology

Origin of tack hammer

First recorded in 1885–90

Example Sentences

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tack hammer

It was a great screw-driver and tack hammer and invaluable to gouge things out of deep cracks.

From Tripping with the Tucker Twins by Speed, Nell

"Putting a synthetic tallow-wax molecule together would be like trying to build a spaceship with a jackknife and a tack hammer."

From Four-Day Planet by Piper, H. Beam

In a few minutes he returned with a paper of tacks, another of pins, and a small tack hammer.

From Lo, Michael! by Hill, Grace Livingston

Uncle Peter always intersperses his remarks on current topics with bits of parboiled philosophy that make one want to get up and drive him through the carpet with a tack hammer.

From Back to the Woods by McHugh, Hugh

"Was they suthin' besides a tack hammer you wanted, Mattie."

From Scattergood Baines by Kelland, Clarence Budington