claw hammer

The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English | 2009 | 256 words | Copyright

claw ham·mer • n. 1. a hammer with one side of the head split and curved, used for extracting nails. 2. (clawhammer) a style of banjo playing in which the thumb and fingers strum or pluck the strings in a downward motion.

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