Jackhammer

Quick meaning: Jackhammer is a noun meaning A portable percussive power tool that combines a hammer and chisel used to drill or break hard matter, for instance rock or concrete.

Meaning

A portable percussive power tool that combines a hammer and chisel used to drill or break hard matter, for instance rock or concrete.

More Meanings

1. (figurative) Something that is very strong but also very rigid.
2. (intransitive) To use a jackhammer.
3. (transitive) To break (something) using a jackhammer.
4. (transitive) To form (something) using a jackhammer.
5. (intransitive, figurative) To move like a jackhammer.
6. (transitive, figurative) To move (something) like a jackhammer.
7. (transitive, figurative) To strike (something) repeatedly with force, to pound.

Example Sentences

In the morning, the street is being jackhammered up.

[…] a bolt of lightning jackhammered across the sky, interrupting his dream.

He was standing at a work table he’d jackhammered from a boulder, placidly sculpting a rose on its work surface.

The foundations for the barrier had been jackhammered away; the piles of broken concrete were just left alongside the road.

Word Forms

• jackhammers
• jackhammering
• jackhammered

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include drill, percussor, whammer, hammer, handscrew, jumbo.

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