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Peen   Listen
noun
Peen  n.  
1.
A round-edged, or hemispherical, end to the head of a hammer or sledge, used to stretch or bend metal by indentation.
2.
The sharp-edged end of the head of a mason's hammer. (Spelt also pane, pein, and piend)





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"Peen" Quotes from Famous Books



... Scenery had become an outrage. There was no joy, no beauty; nothing was worth living for but that inn. As we laboured forward we cheered each other by word-pictures of its parlour, its larder and its cellar. A pork-pie ("porch-peen" I fancy the Yorkshiremen call it) would probably be there. Eggs, of course. A ham, surely. Bacon, no doubt. Yellow butter, crusty new bread, and beer. Indeed, let the rest go, so long as there was beer. But beer, of course, was beyond any ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 152, April 4, 1917 • Various
... said John, shaking his head; "'tis not so long as I vants Shakey to makes mit me a fence; put I tash! Miss Stanhope, he say he ton't can know how to do it; and I says, 'I tash! Shakey, you peen goin' to school all your life, and you don't know de vay to makes ...
— Elsie at Nantucket • Martha Finley
... you like dem," said Handel, the German, greatly pleased. "Und you, Herr Tracy, you haf peen ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain


Words linked to "Peen" :   hammerhead, part, portion, ball-peen hammer


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