ball-peen hammer

1. 1.

   a hammer with one round and one flat end; used in working metal

   Broaderhammer

Questions about ball-peen hammer

What does ball-peen hammer mean?

ball-peen hammer means "a hammer with one round and one flat end; used in working metal".

Is ball-peen hammer a common word?

ball-peen 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.