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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:
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)