单词 | trip-hammer |
释义 | trip-hammern. A massive machine-hammer operated by a tripping device, as a wheel with projecting teeth, a cam, or the like, by which it is raised and then allowed to drop; a tilt-hammer. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > metalworking equipment > [noun] > forging equipment > forge-hammer tilt-hammer1773 trip-hammer1781 forge-hammer1815 skelper1831 tilt1831 oliver1846 set-hammer1855 helve-hammer1858 striker1869 belly-helve1881 society > occupation and work > equipment > driving or beating tools > [noun] > hammer > mechanical and power hammers > types of tilt-hammer1773 trip-hammer1781 tilt1831 Nasmyth1845 oliver1846 helve-hammer1858 striker1869 belly-helve1881 chipping hammer1988 1781 S. Peters Gen. Hist. Connecticut 265 Anchor-making is done by water and tri-hammers. 1809 U.S. Patent 14 Oct. A trip hammer was patented by the United States to John Smith, Otsego County, New York.] a1817 T. Dwight Trav. New-Eng. & N.-Y. (1821) II. 15 Here he built a shop; and set up the first trip-hammer in this part of the country. 1824 Debates in Congress 18 Feb. (1856) 1572 Our committee on manufactures, while it keeps in motion its wheels and triphammers, has kindly condescended to superintend our ploughs and sheep-folds. 1831 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal I. 128 A blast furnace, forge, trip-hammer, shop, and mills. 1848 J. R. Lowell Fable for Critics (ed. 2) 893 When the heart in his breast like a trip-hammer beats. 1854 R. W. Emerson Eloquence in Wks. (1906) III. 190 What character, what infinite variety, belong to the voice! sometimes it is a flute, sometimes a trip-hammer. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1781 |
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