Meanings
adverbhammerwise (not comparable)
- not comparableIn the manner of a hammer.
[…] a handful of almonds; and the ladies having no other way to eat them, one of them saucily snatched off her shoe, and cracked them hammerwise with the heel.
1886, William Dean Howells, Their Silver Wedding Journey, page 315
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