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hammerman|ˈhæməmæn|
A man who works with a hammer. spec. a. A smith or worker in metal. b. A blacksmith's unskilled assistant or ‘striker’. c. A man who manipulates a steam-hammer. d. Coal-mining: see quot. 1829.
1483Charter Town Council Edinb. 2 May, The Hammer⁓men Craft, bayth blacksmyths, goldsmiths, lorymeris, saidlaris. 1535Coverdale Isa. xli. 7 The Smyth comforted the moulder, and the Ironsmyth the hammerman. 1619Canterbury Marriage Licences (MS.) Anthony Pullen of Hawkhurst, hamorman. 1697Evelyn Numism. vii. 226 Not only the Hammer men, but the very Court of Moneyers itself. 1769De Foe's Tour Gt. Brit. IV. 103 The fourteen incorporated Trades are: Surgeons, Goldsmiths..Farriers, Hammermen, Wrights, Masons [etc.]. 1817Sporting Mag. L. 17 After the manner of a hammer-man at a forge. 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. xxix, The hammermen of Edinburgh are to my mind afore the world for making stancheons, ring-bolts, fetter-bolts, bars, and locks. 1829Glover Hist. Derby I. 58 When the holers have finished their operations, a new set of men, called hammer-men, or drivers, enter the works. These fall, or force down, large masses of coal, by means of long and sharp iron wedges. 1880Harper's Mag. Dec. 59 The hammer-man, in a swinging seat, times the turning of his rod of steel to the quick stroke of the hammer. |