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Definition of Sledgehammers
1. sledgehammer [v] - See also: sledgehammer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sledgehammers
Literary usage of Sledgehammers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Role of Federal Military Forces in Domestic Disorders, 1789-1878 by Robert W. Coakley (1996)
"The marines advanced to the assault, but the three-man detail with the sledgehammers
could not break down the door. Greene saw a ladder lying nearby and ..."
2. The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle (1867)
"Friends, what if we took pikes, firelocks, sledgehammers, and helped ourselves !—Speedier
is no remedy ; nor so certain. On the 28th day of February, ..."
3. The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle (1892)
"Friends, what if we took pikes, firelocks, sledgehammers; and helped ourselves' —Speedier
is no remedy; nor so certain. On the 28th day of February, ..."
4. Handbook of Cost Data for Contractors and Engineers: A Reference Book Giving by Halbert Powers Gillette (1910)
"... 40 short-handle shovels; 24 Iron frame and bed wheelbarrows; 6 axes; 200 Hn.
ft. of 1-ln. diameter wire wrapped rubber hose; 6 sledgehammers; ..."
5. Great Authors of All Ages: Being Selections from the Prose Works of Eminent by Samuel Austin Allibone (1879)
"Some were armed with axes, some with bludgeons, some with sledgehammers; others
brought ladders, pulleys, ropes, and levers. Every statue was hurled from ..."
6. Collections, Illustrating the History of the Catholic Religion: In the by George Oliver (1857)
"They had bludgeons generally; aud some had axes, iron palisades (from the
Mansion-house probably), and sledgehammers. All that I noticed were the dregs of ..."
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