Hand tool Hammers and hammerlike tools |
Hand tool Hammers and hammerlike tools: Hammer is used here in a general sense to cover the wide variety of striking tools distinguished by other names, such as pounder, beetle, mallet, maul, pestle, sledge, and others. The best known of the tools that go by the name hammer is the carpenter's claw type, but there are many others, such as riveting, boilermaker's, bricklayer's ...