water hammer

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   the banging sound of steam in pipes

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Questions about water hammer

What does water hammer mean?

water hammer means "the banging sound of steam in pipes".

Is water hammer a common word?

water 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.