hammerwise

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

hammer +‎ -wise

Adverb[edit]

hammerwise (not comparable)

  1. In the manner of a hammer.
    • 1886, William Dean Howells, Their Silver Wedding Journey, page 315:
      […] a handful of almonds; and the ladies having no other way to eat them, one of them saucily snatched off her shoe, and cracked them hammerwise with the heel.
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