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Peen   Listen
noun
Peen  n.  
1.
A round-edged, or hemispherical, end to the head of a hammer or sledge, used to stretch or bend metal by indentation.
2.
The sharp-edged end of the head of a mason's hammer. (Spelt also pane, pein, and piend)






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"Peen" Quotes from Famous Books



... had, in his own phrase, "found salvation." There were those who were scandalized when they heard the language of Revivalism thus applied, but it exactly hit the truth as regards a great many of the converts to Home Rule. In a very few cases—e.g., in Gladstone's own—there had peen a gradual approximation to the idea of Irish autonomy, and the crisis of December, 1885, gave the opportunity of avowing convictions which had long been forming. But in the great majority of cases the conversion was instantaneous. ...
— Prime Ministers and Some Others - A Book of Reminiscences • George W. E. Russell



Words linked to "Peen" :   ball-peen hammer, hammerhead, portion, part



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