TRIPHAMMER

Trip hammer

A trip hammer, also known as a helve hammer, is a massive powered hammer used in: agriculture to facilitate the labor of pounding, decorticating and polishing of grain; mining, where ore from deep veins was crushed into small pieces ; and, finery forges, for drawing out blooms made from wrought iron into more workable bar iron, in fabricating various articles of wrought iron, latten, steel and other metals

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trip hammer

Noun

  1. A powered machine used in a forge which repeatedly strikes work placed on an anvil.


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