air hammer

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   a hammer driven by compressed air

   Synonymsjackhammerpneumatic hammer

   Broaderhammer

Questions about air hammer

What does air hammer mean?

air hammer means "a hammer driven by compressed air".

What is another word for air hammer?

Close synonyms include jackhammer, pneumatic hammer. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is air hammer a common word?

air hammer is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.