drop hammer

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   device for making large forgings

   Synonymsdrop forgedrop press

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Questions about drop hammer

What does drop hammer mean?

drop hammer means "device for making large forgings".

What is another word for drop hammer?

Close synonyms include drop forge, drop press. 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 drop hammer a common word?

drop 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.