hammerstone

English

Etymology

hammer +‎ stone

Noun

hammerstone (plural hammerstones)

1. (archaeology) A type of stone used to hit or strike in a similar way to a modern-day hammer.
   • 2001 March 2, Stanley H. Ambrose, “Paleolithic Technology and Human Evolution”, in Science‎^[1], volume 291, number 5509, →DOI, pages 1748–1753:

     Striking a hand-held isotropic block or cobble (a core) with a hammerstone initiates a cone-shaped crack at roughly 60° from the axis of force, exemplified by the hole in a plate glass window made by a pellet gun (18, 19 ).

   • 1905, Andrew Lang, The Clyde Mystery‎^[2]:

     On the other hand, in the same crannog, a hammerstone broken in two was found, each half in a different place, as were two parts of a figurine at Dumbuck.

Anagrams

• Hammontrees, stone hammer