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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...


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 tiebeam...


break

break broke [brōk] bro·ken [brō-kən] break·ing [brā-ki] vt 1 a : violate transgress [ the law] b : to invalidate (a will) by a court proceeding 2 a : to open (another's real property) by force or without privilege (as consent) for entry often used in the phrase break and enter [one who s and enters a dwelling-house of another "W. R. LaFave and A. W. Scott, Jr."] b : to escape by force from [s prison or escapes or flees from justice "Colorado Revised Statutes"] 3 : to cause (a strike) to fail and discontinue by means (as force) other than bargaining vi : to escape with forceful effort often used with out [prisoners wounded while attempting to out] break in·to : to enter by force or without privilege [an officer may break into a building "Arizona Revised Statutes"] ...


Break

To strain apart to sever by fracture to divide with violence as to break a rope or chain to break a seal to break an axle to break rocks or coal to break a lock...


House breaking

House breaking, The crime of breaking into a dwelling or other secured building with intent to commit a felony inside, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 744. (Indian Penal Code, s. 445)See BREAKING-IN; and as to breaking in at night, see BURGLARY....


Without breaking bulk

Without breaking bulk, 'without breaking bulk' is not an expression defined in the Act or the rules. It has, therefore, to construed in its literal and ordinary sense to the extent possible, and construed as it is, in our opinion, transferring the product from the drums by breaking seal of the drums to bottles, cannot be said to be 'without breaking bulk, H.M.M. Ltd. v. Administrator, AIR 1990 SC 47 (51): (1989) 4 SCC 640: (1989) Supp 1 SCR 353. [City of Bangalore Municipal Corporation Act, 1969, s. 98(2)]...


Gold hammer

The yellow hammer...


Hammerable

Capable of beingformed or shapeo by a hammer...


Hammer dressed

Having the surface roughly shaped or faced with the stonecutters hammer said of building stone...


Hammerer

One who works with a hammer...


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