sledge hammer

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sledge hammer

noun sledge hammers

alternative Alternative form of sledgehammer One of his best stories was "Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life" (1914), of which there survives only an amusing still, showing poor Mabel Normand chained to the rails by two toughs, the moustached villain threatening her with a sledge-hammer, and an awful sense of that inexorably approaching express

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@misc{sledge_hammer_2026,
  title = {sledge hammer},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/sledge%20hammer},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}