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<p>A <b>ball-peen</b> (also ball-pein) or <b>machinist's hammer</b> is a type of <a href="page.php?w=peening">peening</a> <a href="page.php?w=hammer">hammer</a> used in <a href="page.php?w=metalworking">metalworking</a>. It has two heads, one flat and the other, called the peen, rounded.</p>

<p><big> Etymology </big></p>
<p>In the word "ball-peen", peen, probably comes from a <a href="page.php?w=North_Germanic_languages">North Germanic</a> source; compare dialectal <a href="page.php?w=Norwegian_language">Norwegian</a> <i>penn</i> ("peen"), <a href="page.php?w=Danish_language">Danish</a></p><p>
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