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Raccoon vs Sledgehammer - What's the difference?

raccoon | sledgehammer |

As nouns the difference between raccoon and sledgehammer

is that raccoon is a nocturnal omnivore native to north america, typically with a mixture of gray, brown, and black fur, a mask-like marking around the eyes and a striped tail; procyon lotor while sledgehammer is a hammer that consists of a large, heavy, broad and flat block of metal (the head) attached to a handle typically 05 meter to 1 meter long the sledgehammer's design is meant to allow it to be swung powerfully, and to distribute force over a wide area upon impact.

As a verb sledgehammer is

to strike with a sledgehammer.

raccoon

English

(wikipedia raccoon)

Alternative forms

* racoon * rarowcun * r'coon (colloquial contraction)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A nocturnal omnivore native to North America, typically with a mixture of gray, brown, and black fur, a mask-like marking around the eyes and a striped tail; Procyon lotor .
  • * 1624 , John Smith, Generall Historie , in Kupperman 1988, p. 64:
    • Before a fire upon a seat like a bedsted, he sat covered with a great robe, made of Rarowcun skinnes, and all the tayles hanging by.
  • * 2010 , Charlie Brooker, "Screen Burn", The Guardian , 3 Apr 2010:
    • Thus we're presented witha man who has the head of his penis bitten off by a raccoon , then bleeds to death in a forest.
  • Any mammal of the genus Procyon .
  • Any mammal of the subfamily Procyoninae, a procyonine.
  • Any mammal of the family Procyonidae, a procyonid.

    • Synonyms

    * (Procyon lotor) coon (colloquial), (common raccoon), (North American raccoon), northern raccoon

    Derived terms

    * coon * coon dog * coonhound * (Cozumel raccoon) * crab-eating raccoon * in a raccoon's age / in a coon's age * (pygmy raccoon) * (raccoon butterfly) * (raccoon butterflyfish), * raccoon dog * raccoon eyes

    sledgehammer

    English

    Alternative forms

    * sledge-hammer

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A hammer that consists of a large, heavy, broad and flat block of metal (the head) attached to a handle typically 0.5 meter to 1 meter long. The sledgehammer's design is meant to allow it to be swung powerfully, and to distribute force over a wide area upon impact.

    • Derived terms

    * use a sledgehammer to crack a nut

    See also

    * hammer * mallet * maul

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To strike with a sledgehammer.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=February 22, author=Jane And Michael Stern, title=Nirvana Express, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=She’s trying to piece together shards of precious pottery gleefully sledgehammered by a delegation led by the Taliban ’s minister of culture, who deemed the world’s greatest collection of Central Asian artifacts un-Islamic.}}