triphammer

American  

[trip-ham-er] / ˈtrɪpˌhæm ər /

Or trip hammer

noun

1. Machinery. a heavy hammer raised and then let fall by means of some tripping device, as a cam.

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adjective

1. of, resembling, or characteristic of the repetitive and forceful pounding of a triphammer.

   He was subjected to triphammer interrogation by the police detectives.

triphammer British  

/ ˈtrɪpˌhæmə /

noun

1. a power hammer that is raised or tilted by a cam and allowed to fall under gravity

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Etymology

Origin of triphammer

An Americanism dating back to 1775–85; trip ¹ + hammer

Example Sentences

Under triphammer questioning LoBuono began to amend his answers.

From Time Magazine Archive

By concentrating on such specific targets and keeping up a triphammer succession of attacks, the government hoped to force the Communist forces onto the defensive.

From Time Magazine Archive

But on & on he went, crowding, slamming, tearing in like a madman trying, to whip a triphammer.

From Time Magazine Archive

With all its faults, The Inspector General gives free play to Danny's superbly controlled mugging and his triphammer tongue, which rattles through some first-rate lyrics by his wife, Associate Producer Sylvia Fine.

From Time Magazine Archive

Because it becomes alike electrified as the sun, and the law of repulsion strikes it like the blow of a mammoth triphammer and hurls it in the opposite direction.

From The Universe a Vast Electric Organism by Warder, George Woodward