English
A sledgehammer
Etymology
sledge hammer
Pronunciation
Noun
sledgehammer (plural sledgehammers
A hammer that consists of a large, heavy, broad and flat block of metal (the head ) attached to a handle typically 0.5 meter to 1 meter long. The sledgehammer's design is meant to allow it to be swung powerfully, and to distribute force over a wide area upon impact .
Derived terms
Translations
kind of hammer
Albanian: vare (sq) m
Arabic: please add this translation if you can
Armenian: կռան (hy) ( kṙan )
Belarusian: кува́лда f ( kuválda )
Chinese:
Mandarin: 大錘 ／ 大锤 (zh) ( dàchuí ) , 大锤 (zh) ( dàchuí )
Crimean Tatar: toqmaq (in the northern dialect also şoqmar )
Czech: perlík m
Danish: forhammer (da) c
Dutch: voorhamer (nl) m beukhamer m
Finnish: leka (fi)
French: marteau de forgeron m masse (fr) f marteau (fr)
Galician: marra f mallo (gl) m mandarria f
Georgian: ურო ( uro )
German: Vorschlaghammer (de) m
Greek: βαριά (el) f ( variá )
Hebrew: קורנס (he) m ( kurnas )
Hindi: please add this translation if you can
Ido: martelego (io)
Indonesian: palu godam
Italian: mazza (it) f martello da fabbro m
Japanese: 大型 ハンマー ( おおがたハンマー, ōgata hanmā ) , スレッジハンマー ( surejjihanmā )
Korean: (please verify ) 대형 쇠망치 ( daehyeong soemangchi )
Macedonian: то́кмак m ( tókmak )
Malagasy: fampohaza (mg)
(deprecated template usage ) {{trans-mid }}Malay: tukul besi
Maltese: mazza f
Navajo: bee atsidítsoh
Norman: marté à deux mains m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: slegge (no) m or f
Nynorsk: sleggje f
Persian: پتک (fa) ( potk ) , خایسک (fa) ( xâyesk ) , پلوک (fa) ( paluk ) , کدین (fa) ( kodin )
Polish: młot dwuręczny m młot kowalski m
Portuguese: marreta (pt) f
Russian: кува́лда (ru) f ( kuválda )
Serbo-Croatian:
Roman: malj (sh) m
Slovak: perlík m
Slovene: macola (sl) f
Somali: hadhso
Spanish: almádena (es) f
Swedish: slägga (sv) c
Thai: ค้อนปอนด์ (th) ( kɔ́ɔn-bpɔɔn )
Turkish: balyoz (tr)
Ukrainian: кува́лда f ( kuválda )
Uzbek: bosqon (uz)
Welsh: gordd (cy) f
Yiddish: שמידהאַמער m ( shmidhamer )
Verb
sledgehammer (third-person singular simple present sledgehammers present participle sledgehammering simple past and past participle sledgehammered
To strike with a sledgehammer.
2009 February 22, Jane And Michael Stern, “Nirvana Express”, in New York Times [1] She’s trying to piece together shards of precious pottery gleefully sledgehammered by a delegation led by the Taliban’s minister of culture, who deemed the world’s greatest collection of Central Asian artifacts un-Islamic.
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