Noun: hammer pond
| Singular | hammer pond |
| Plural | hammer ponds |
Sample Sentences
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[T]hroughout the Southern Weald, from Hastings to Hind-head, every copse glared with charcoal-heaps, every glen was burrowed with iron diggings, every hammer-pond stamped and gurgled night and day, smelting and forging English iron[.] [1866, Charles Kingsley, chapter 25, in Hereward the Wake, London: Nelson, page 342:]
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In later years the waters were converted into a hammer pond to power the furnaces and hammers of an ironworks. [2009, Clive Chatters, “The Enclosed Countryside”, in Flowers of the Forest: Plants and People in the New Forest National Park, volume 52, Princeton University Press, pages 190-207:]
Nouns inflected like hammer pond
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English hamer, Old English hamor, and Middle English pond. See: Middle English Nouns '
hamer', Old English Nouns '
hamor'.