Word Meanings - HAMMERLESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Without a visible hammer; -- said of a gun having a cock or striker concealed from sight, and out of the way of an accidental touch.

• Havelock
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• Sight-hole
  A hole for looking through; a peephole.
• Touch-box
  A box containing lighted tinder, formerly carried by soldiers who used matchlocks, to kindle the match.
• HAMMERBEAM
  A member of one description of roof truss, called hammer-beam truss, which is so framed as not to have a tiebeam at the top of the wall. Each principal has two hammer-beams, which occupy the situation, and to some extent serve the purpose, of a tiebeam.
• Hammerable
  Capable of being formed or shaped by a hammer.
• Sightless
  Wanting sight; without sight; blind.
• Touchdown
  The act of touching the football down behind the opponents' goal .
• HAMMERBREAK
  An interrupter in which contact is broken by the movement of an automatically vibrating hammer between a contact piece and an electromagnet, or of a rapidly moving piece mechanically driven.
• Hammer-beam
  A member of one description of roof truss, called hammer-beam truss, which is so framed as not to have a tiebeam at the top of the wall. Each principal has two hammer-beams, which occupy the situation, and to some extent serve the purpose, of a ti
• Hammercloth
  The cloth which covers a coach box.
• Havenage
  Harbor dues; port dues.
• Sightliness
  The state of being sightly; comeliness; conspicuousness.
• Touchhole
  The vent of a cannot or other firearm, by which fire is communicateed to the powder of the charge.
• HAMMERDRESSED
  Having the surface roughly shaped or faced with the stonecutter's hammer; -- said of building stone.
• Accidental
  Happening by chance, or unexpectedly; taking place not according to the usual course of things; casual; fortuitous; as, an accidental visit.
• Hammer-dressed
  Having the surface roughly shaped or faced with the stonecutter's hammer; -- said of building stone.
• Havened
  Sheltered in a haven.
• Sightly
  Pleasing to the sight; comely.
• Touchily
  In a touchy manner.

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