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, as a surface or volume; to expand; to spread; to amplify; as, to extend metal plates by hammering or rolling them.

. [Obs.] Silver beaters choose the finest coin, as that which is most extensive under the hammer. Boyle.

undle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering at a welding heat; a pile.

To form; to give shape or figure to; to mold. Here the loud hammer fashions female toys. Gay. Ingenious art . . . Steps forth to fashion and refine the age. Cowper.

-- Flange turning, the process of forming a flange on a wrought iron plate by bending and hammering it wh

A flat-faced fulling hammer.

nged woodpecker (Colaptes aurutus); -- so called from its spring note. Called also yellow-hammer, high-holder, pigeon woodpecker, and yucca. The cackle of the flicker among the oaks. Thoureau.

A piece of flint for striking fire; -- formerly much used, esp. in the hammers of gun locks.

A lock for a gun or pistol, having a flint fixed in the hammer, which on stricking the steel ignites the priming.

t. Flogging chisel (Mach.), a large cold chisel, used in chipping castings. -- Flogging hammer, a small sledge hammer used for striking a flogging chisel.

ame. -- Fore girth, a girth for the fore part (of a horse, etc.); a martingale. -- Fore hammer, a sledge hammer, working alternately, or in time, with the hand hammer. -- Fore leg, one of the front legs of a quadruped, or multiped, or of a chair, settee, etc. -- Fore peak (Naut.), the angle within a ship's bows; th…

A place or establishment where iron or other metals are wrought by heating and hammering; especially, a furnace, or a shop with its furnace, etc., where iron is heated and wrought; a smithy. In the quick forge and working house of thought. Shak.

A skilled smith, who has a hammerer to assist him.

The act of shaping metal by hammering or pressing.

ction and can turn, by slipping, under excessive strain or in starting. -- Friction drop hammer, one in which the hammer is raised for striking by the friction of revolving rollers which nip the hammer rod. -- Friction gear. See Frictional gearing, under Frictional. -- Friction machine, an electrical machine, genera…

The frontal bone, or one of the two frontal bones, of the cranium. Frontal hammer or helve, a forge hammer lifted by a cam, acting upon a "tongue" immediately in front of the hammer head. Raymond.

A die; a half-round set hammer, used for forming grooves and spreading iron; -- called also a creaser.

The European yellow-hammer.

The art or process of reducing gold to extremely thin leaves, by beating with a hammer. Ure.

The yellow-hammer.