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Triphammer

noun
1.
A massive power hammer; raised by a cam until released to fall under gravity.





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"Triphammer" Quotes from Famous Books



... This position for a second promises repose; but almost immediately his head begins to pound the seat, and beat a lively rat-a-plan on the board. The head of a wooden idol couldn't stand this treatment more than a minute. The fiddler twisted and turned, but his head went like a triphammer on the seat. I have never seen a devotional attitude so deceptive, or one that produced less favorable results. The young man rose from his knees, and ...
— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner
... at a gallop in the face of a terrific fire, were unlimbered, and were soon hurling common shell and shrapnel at the enemy at a lively rate, striking the emplacements, batteries, and entrenchments with the rhythmic regularity of a triphammer. ...
— The Boys of '98 • James Otis
... the door and started across the room in his direction. Suddenly she recognized the broad back and the familiar but very unseasonable panama hat. Panic seized her. She turned quickly, bent on making her escape. Her heart was beating like a triphammer,—she felt strangely weak in the knees. As abruptly, she checked the impulse to flee. Why should she run away, now that the moment she had wished for so ardently the night before was at hand? Chance had answered her call with amazing swiftness. She was alone with him,—she could go to him and lay ...
— West Wind Drift • George Barr McCutcheon
... mentally. But even by the frontier tests of efficiency, of gameness, of going the limit, Weaver stood head and shoulders above his neighbors. She had lifted her gaze to meet his, quite sure that her answer was not in doubt, but now her heart was beating like a triphammer. She felt herself drifting from her moorings. It was as though she were drowning forty fathoms deep in those calm, ...
— Mavericks • William MacLeod Raine
... beating like a triphammer and his nerves were at a fearful tension. The next five minutes would probably determine whether he was to ...
— Army Boys on the Firing Line - or, Holding Back the German Drive • Homer Randall


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