Knight's American mechanical dictionary : a description of tools, instruments, machines, processes and engineering, history of inventions, general technological vocabulary ; and digest of mechanical appliances in science and the arts . nee (which see). Hame-ring. (Harness.) With carriage-hamesthere is one ring on each hame for the driving-ieins ;with wagon-hanies, an additional ring is providedon caeli iVir the breast chain or stra]). Heime-strap. (Harness.) A strap at the u]))*?end of the hames unites them above tlie collar,and another strap unites them below tlie lower is the one
Knight's American mechanical dictionary : a description of tools, instruments, machines, processes and engineering, history of inventions, general technological vocabulary ; and digest of mechanical appliances in science and the arts . nee (which see). Hame-ring. (Harness.) With carriage-hamesthere is one ring on each hame for the driving-ieins ;with wagon-hanies, an additional ring is providedon caeli iVir the breast chain or stra]). Heime-strap. (Harness.) A strap at the u]))*?end of the hames unites them above tlie collar,and another strap unites them below tlie lower is the one which is unfastened to removethe gears. Ham-knife. In some restaurants, a peculiarlong, round-ended carving-knife for shaving ott verythin sliies of ham or beef. Hammer. 1. A tool for driving nails, beatingmetals, and the like. We can hardly a<lrait the statement of Pliny thatthe hammer was invented by Cinyra, the discovererof copjier-miues in the island of Cypnis. Tools ofmetal, of which the hammer was among the lirst,must have been in use for many centuries. TuVialCain, the descendant in the sixth generation fromCain, was an artificer in brass and iron ; co]ijier,probably, rather than brass. Brass and bronze are Fig. Hammers, HAMMER. 1052 HAMMER. not distiiifuished from each other, by name, either , flint-lock was the steel cover of tlie priming-pan, in Greek or Latin. anil tle parts connected therewith wliich received The initial iorm was perhaps a stone fastened to a the blow of the flint wliich was held in the cock. handle, and used as a club, A B C D E. Many * ?-*-•- * *- -? *- •• ? such are found in the relics of the stone age, beforeman liad learned tlie use of metal, the most usefulof wliich, iron, was about tlie last to be discovered,of those which are applied to the common affairs oflife. Tliis stone age is so far in the remote past asto antedate all historical accounts of manners, cus-toms, and ap|iliances. The use of stone, however,in the mode descr
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