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  • n  the part of a hammerhead opposite the flat striking surface (may have various shapes)

  • Suddenly, the orbiting wheel made an eyeball instrumentation and inputted a hold: a ball peen adjustment could mean the difference between a red bird and a green one.
  • Golfers, of course, will try anything short of pool cues or ball-peen hammers to improve their putting game.
  • Bush still breaks out the rhetorical ball peen hammer when he can, of course.
Quotes

  • PZ Myers in USA Today
    What the investigators have accomplished is to discover the reset button for the cell, but the way they currently press it is by hitting it hard with a ball-peen hammer,wrote University of Wisconsin biologist PZ Myers in 2007 in his popular...
  • Bode Miller in The Union Leader
    I was psyched to hit the ball even though it hurt that bad,Miller said. "It feels like someone hit you with a ball-peen hammer. Bam! (The impact) is so hard inside the bone, it just feels really bad for a second."
  • Michael Bishop in Wired News
    But, Infigen's Michael Bishop says, "It doesn't matter if you use a ball-peen hammer."

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