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 tripping trip 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

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

A dial turner in search of music these days is likely to encounter a shrill, nasal voice spewing at triphammer speed sentiments something like these: Oooh-eee-oooh-aah-aah Ting-tang Walla-walla bing-bang.

From Time Magazine Archive

For six triphammer days, while Premier Nikolai Bulganin traveled in genial, flower-showered near-silence at his side, the chief of Russian Bolshevism carried the brick-loaded Red hod through Burma.

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