trip hammer
- a variation of triphammer.
Example Sentences
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Tapping away like a trip hammer ever since, he has become the most successful of the new and growing breed of sport lawyer-managers.
From Time Magazine Archive
If the same part is cast instead of forged, it weighs only 11 lb. before machining, because molten metal can be poured into nooks & crannies where no trip hammer can force it.
From Time Magazine Archive
But though he was as methodical and repetitive as a foundry trip hammer, the stuff of his soul was not steel, but the durable latex of a heavy-handed rubber stamp.
From Time Magazine Archive
A swash buckling world traveler and a columnist for France's moderately conservative Le Figaro, he prefaces his book by insisting that it is "no wild-eyed dream," then drives his argument home with a trip hammer.
From Time Magazine Archive
Laying down on my stomach, with my heart beating like a trip hammer, I wiggled my way to Rubin’s grave.
From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls
