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

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

From Scattergood Baines by Clarence Budington Kelland

Conn. I claim, as a new article of manufacture, a tack hammer, constructed in the manner and With the characteristics herein specified, for the purposes set forth.

From Scientific American, Volume 17, No. 26 December 28, 1867 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures. by Various

Blue Bonnet took the tack hammer from Amanda's apathetic hand and rapped for order.

From Blue Bonnet in Boston or, Boarding-School Days at Miss North's by John Goss

"A nice hard tack hammer?" came the query again.

From Jane Allen, Junior by Edith Bancroft

So absorbed was she in her hammering that at first she neither heard nor saw Portlaw when he finally ventured to advance; and when she did she dropped the tack hammer in her astonishment.

From The Firing Line by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers