Word Meanings - AUCTIONARY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to an auction or an auctioneer. With auctionary hammer in thy hand. Dryden.

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• HAMMER LOCK
  A hold in which an arm of one contestant is held twisted and bent behind his back by his opponent.
• AUCTION BRIDGE
  A variety of the game of bridge in which the players, beginning with the dealer, bid for the privilege of naming the trump and playing with the dummy for that deal, there being heavy penalties for a player's failure to make good his bid. The score
• AUCTION PITCH
  A game of cards in which the players bid for the privilege of determining or "pitching" the trump suit. R. F. Foster.
• HAMMERER
  One who works with a hammer.
• HAMMER
  That part of a gunlock which strikes the percussion cap, or firing pin; the cock; formerly, however, a piece of steel covering the pan of a flintlock musket and struck by the flint of the cock to ignite the priming. Also, a person of thing that
• AUCTIONARY
  Of or pertaining to an auction or an auctioneer. With auctionary hammer in thy hand. Dryden.
• HAMMER-LESS
  Without a visible hammer; -- said of a gun having a cock or striker concealed from sight, and out of the way of an accidental touch.
• HAMMERABLE
  Capable of being formed or shaped by a hammer. Sherwood.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• HAMMERKOP
  A bird of the Heron family; the umber.
• HAMMER BREAK
  An interrupter in which contact is broken by the movement of an automatically vibrating hammer between a contact piece and an electromagnet, or of a rapidly moving piece mechanically driven.
• AUCTION
  price was called out, and the article to be sold was adjudged to the last increaser of the price, or the highest bidder, fr. L. augere, 1. A public sale of property to the highest bidder, esp. by a person licensed and authorized for the purpose;
• HAMMERMAN
  A hammerer; a forgeman.
• HAMMER-DRESSED
  Having the surface roughly shaped or faced with the stonecutter's hammer; -- said of building stone.
• HAMMER-BEAM
  A member of one description of roof truss, called hammer-beam truss, which is so framed as not to have a tiebeam at the top of the wall. Each principal has two hammer-beams, which occupy the situation, and to some extent serve the purpose, of a
• HAMMERCLOTH
  The cloth which covers a coach box. (more info) + E. cloth; or perh.
• HAMMERHEAD
  A shark of the genus Sphyrna or Zygæna, having the eyes set on projections from the sides of the head, which gives it a hammer shape. The Sphyrna zygæna is found in the North Atlantic. Called also hammer fish, and balance fish.
• AUCTIONEER
  A person who sells by auction; a person whose business it is to dispose of goods or lands by public sale to the highest or best bidder.
• HAMMER-HARDEN
  To harden, as a metal, by hammering it in the cold state.
• GOLD-HAMMER
  The yellow-hammer.
• BUSHHAMMER
  A hammer with a head formed of a bundle of square bars, with pyramidal points, arranged in rows, or a solid head with a face cut into a number of rows of such points; -- used for dressing stone.
• YELLOWHAMMER
  A common European finch . The color of the male is bright yellow on the breast, neck, and sides of the head, with the back yellow and brown, and the top of the head and the tail quills blackish. Called also yellow bunting, scribbling lark, and
• TRIP HAMMER
  A tilt hammer.
• PATENT-HAMMERED
  Having a surface dressed by cutting with a hammer the head of which consists of broad thin chisels clamped together.
• WATER HAMMER
  1. A vessel partly filled with water, exhausted of air, and hermetically sealed. When reversed or shaken, the water being unimpeded by air, strikes the sides in solid mass with a sound like that of a hammer. 2. A concussion, or blow, made by water