sledge hammer

English

Noun

sledge hammer (plural sledge hammers)

1. Alternative form of sledgehammer.
   • 1958 February, David Gunston, “Railways on the Screen”, in Railway Magazine, page 87:

     One of his best stories was "Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life" (1914), of which there survives only an amusing still, showing poor Mabel Normand chained to the rails by two toughs, the moustached villain threatening her with a sledge-hammer, and an awful sense of that inexorably approaching express!