sledgehammers in English

noun
1
a large, heavy hammer used for such jobs as breaking rocks and driving in fence posts.
We succeeded in moving some rocks, breaking up several large ones with sledgehammers before we broke the handles on Dave and Stan's largest hammers.
verb
1
hit with a sledgehammer.
They had sledgehammered the door and it caved in.
noun
verb

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1. The tools required for building houses included sledgehammers, adzes, hand mauls and wedges for splitting wood.

2. After rampaging through Mosul's museum with sledgehammers and torching its library last month, IS "Bulldozed" the nearby ruins of Nimrud Thursday, the tourism and antiquities ministry said.

3. Some light weapons, as well as heavy conventional weaponry, will probably require initial disabling and preparation for destruction disposal through the use of cutting devices such as oxy-acetylene torches.5 Small arms, such as handguns, could be easily destroyed using light presses or even sledgehammers and anvils.