jackhammer
IPA: dʒˈækhæmɝ
noun
- A portable percussive power tool that combines a hammer and chisel used to drill or break hard matter, for instance rock or concrete.
verb
- (intransitive) To use a jackhammer.
- (transitive) To break (something) using a jackhammer.
- (transitive) To form (something) using a jackhammer.
- (intransitive, figurative) To move like a jackhammer.
- To beat hard, to pound. (of the heart or pulse)
- (transitive, figurative) To move (something) like a jackhammer.
- (transitive, figurative) To strike (something) repeatedly with force, to pound.
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Examples of "jackhammer" in Sentences
- A jackhammer is a pneumatic drill.
- A jackhammer is a percussive drill.
- Just read you clean up of jackhammer.
- And to have invented a silent jackhammer.
- It is out with the jackhammer and the hammer drill once again.
- A jackhammer is a power tool that combines a hammer and chisel.
- As the jackhammer drumming is used by many metal bands nowadays.
- A jackhammer operates by driving an internal hammer up and down.
- A 'jackhammer' is a power tool that combines a hammer and chisel.
- Most pneumatic jackhammers now have a silencer around the barrel of the tool.
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