hammerhead

Definition

The portion of a hammer containing the metal striking face (also including the claw or peen if so equipped).

Etymology

From hammer + head.

Example Sentences

• "Holonym: hammer"
• "Meronym: hammer face"
• "[The butler] joined us with a telegram for Bobbie on a salver. From her mother, I presumed, calling me some name which she had forgotten to insert in previous communications. Or, of course, possibly expressing once more her conviction that I was a guffin, which, I thought, having had time to ponder over it, would be something in the nature of a bohunkus or a hammerhead."

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