Mollusk shells and wood were used to make hammering and pounding tools. In domestic plumbing this is experienced as a loud banging resembling a hammering noise. See hammer drills for more on electropneumatic hammering. He started beating him and considered hammering his head. He chastised the "degraded nonsense which country preachers are ramming and hammering into yokel skulls". Our own aircraft has been grand in its relentless hammering of the foe. With wrought iron, hammering and later rolling removed some dross. With others the valve action was automatic, allowing for rapid repetitive hammering. The jaw probably moved in a hammering motion. While the enemy was hammering at the Marines' defensive positions, Sgt. The track is a "boastful" scorcher, built from New Age synthesizers and hammering snare drums. They have been identified as meteoric iron shaped by careful hammering. The fighting was later termed the "Hammering of the Panzers". The music was a fast uptempo number with Little Richard's hammering, boogie piano. High phosphorus iron can also be hardened by cold hammering.