† gold hammern.2
Obsolete.
A gold-beater's hammer. Cf. finishing-hammer n. at finishing n. Compounds 2.
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1763 W. Lewis Commercium Philosophico-technicum ii. 48 The gold hammer, or finishing hammer, weighs ten or eleven pounds.
1847 Encycl. Americana (new ed.) 549/1 The 2400 leaves hence resulting are parted into three packets.., and beaten with the finishing, or gold hammer.
1904 Encycl. Americana VIII. at Gold-beating Each mold is beaten with the ‘finishing’ or gold hammer, weighing from 7 to 10 pounds.
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