Noun: forehammer
| Singular | forehammer |
| Plural | forehammers |
Sample Sentences
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The blacksmith I was put under was a kind good fellow and soon put me in the way of striking with the forehammer which was at first very tiring […] [1939, John Brunton's Book]
Nouns inflected like forehammer
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English forehamer, forhamer, equivalent to fore- + hammer. Compare Dutch voorhamer (“sledgehammer”), German Low German Vörhamer (“sledgehammer”), Danish forhammer (“sledgehammer”). See: Middle English Nouns '
forehamer', Dutch Nouns '
voorhamer', Danish Nouns '
forhammer'.