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s | sledgehammer |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a noun 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.

s

Translingual

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Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=··· , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    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.}}