'Cushioned hammer' definitions:
Definition of 'Cushioned hammer'
From: GCIDE
- Cushion \Cush"ion\ (k[oo^]sh"[u^]n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cushioned (-[u^]nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Cushioning.]
- 1. To seat or place on, or as on a cushion. [1913 Webster]
- Many who are cushioned on thrones would have remained in obscurity. --Bolingbroke. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To furnish with cushions; as, to cushion a chaise. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To conceal or cover up, as under a cushion. [1913 Webster]
- Cushioned hammer, a dead-stroke hammer. See under Dead-stroke. [1913 Webster]