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Trip hammer
A trip hammer, also known as a helve hammer, is a massive powered hammer used in:
- agriculture to facilitate the labor of pounding, decorticating and polishing of grain;
- mining, where ore from deep veins was crushed into small pieces (though a stamp mill was more usual for this);
- finery forges, for drawing out blooms made from wrought iron into more workable bar iron;
- fabricating various articles of wrought iron, latten (an early form of brass), steel and other metals.
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