Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hammerstone

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.11 in modern English

Syllables: ham-mer-stone
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A type of stone used to hit or strike in a similar way to a modern-day hammer.

Example Sentences

"Striking a hand-held isotropic block or cobble (a core) with a hammerstone initiates a cone-shaped crack at roughly 60° from the axis of force, exemplified by the hole in a plate glass window made by a pellet gun (18, 19 )."
"On the other hand, in the same crannog, a hammerstone broken in two was found, each half in a different place, as were two parts of a figurine at Dumbuck."

Etymology

From hammer + stone.

Inflected Forms

hammerstones (plural)

Questions

What does hammerstone mean?: A type of stone used to hit or strike in a similar way to a modern-day hammer.
Where does hammerstone come from?: From hammer + stone.

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