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jackhammer
[ jak-ham-er ]
noun
- a portable drill operated by compressed air and used to drill rock, break up pavement, etc.
jackhammer
/ ˈdʒækˌhæmə /
noun
- a hand-held hammer drill, driven by compressed air, for drilling rocks, etc
Word History and Origins
Origin of jackhammer1
Example Sentences
On the microphone, Lamar’s staccato, jackhammer flow was impeccable, his syllables as precise and piercing as when recorded.
Your favorite song, cranked up in your earbuds, never really feels overly loud but the pounding jackhammer across the street is unbearably noisy—when often, they’re equally dangerous.
These pulses would successively damage obstacles like blows from a jackhammer, Lube says.
These pressure pulses would successively damage obstacles like blows from a jackhammer, Lube says.
This happens despite the evidence that Shotspotters are often triggered by loud sounds like jackhammers, nail guns or engine noises.
Result: a supersonic, pulsating jackhammer of 1,700-degree F exhaust gas.
This is all done with the subtlety of someone wielding a jackhammer.
The cops, though, had put giant industrial earmuffs on, the kind of thing you saw jackhammer operators wearing.
They began knocking scales loose with the jackhammer and cutting into the leathery skin underneath with sonocutters.
The noise a jackhammer makes isn't pleasant at all, but if it doesn't make that noise, you figure it isn't functioning properly.
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