TAMPING BAR

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.)

Synonyms:

tamp; tamper; tamping bar

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("tamping bar" is a kind of...):

tool (an implement used in the practice of a vocation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tamping bar"):

stemmer (a miner's tamping bar for ramming packing in over a blasting charge)

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