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And leaves the world to CO and to me?
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WW, I knew that the front of a hammer is a face, the "pony tails" you describe are nail-puller claws, and the top?
Don't know, that's where you see the eye, though, that the
handle goes through. Looking for those other words I was surprised to find that the face is on the nose instead of vice-versa, and the sides of the head are, more logically,
cheeks.
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Well, naturally, these weren't my terms but terms from a pictorial dictionary I bought years back. I thought the term 'cheeks' was very sweet for the sides, and the eye for the top--can't imagine why--and, yes, the claw for what looks like a stiff, double ponytail to me, and the face at the front. Carpenter who named that eye must have had one too many.
Also interesting: the mallet has two 'heads' rather than two 'faces.'
And the ball peen has a 'peen' and a 'face'--but I don't know what a 'peen' is outside of a ball peen hammer.
These kinds of facts come into play when reading period mysteries, don't they.
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and the eye for the top--can't imagine why
I suspect it looked more like an eye on an old-fashioned hammer, when there would often be a metal spike nailed into the top of the wooden handle to help it spread and grip the metal head. Think of the head of the spike as the pupil/iris and the wood as the sclera (another great little word) of the eye.
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I wish someone could find an illustration of this spiked hammer of which Flatlander writes...
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I wooda called it a wedge rather than spike. must be a pic somewhere...
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Here's a quote from the page you posted [Thanks, Faldage]:
For Pete's sake, your a blacksmith, make some wedges!
Would you like to know how many times I've read that spelling error this year?
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These are odd to me: mashie, niblick.
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