coal hammer

English

Noun

coal hammer (plural coal hammers)

1. (now rare) A hammer used to break up lumps of coal, typically in order to make them practical to use on a fire. [from 16th c.]
   • 1915, W. Somerset Maugham, chapter 97, in Of Human Bondage:

     He looked curiously at the kitchen-knife and the coal-hammer, which were lying on the table where she had left them.