Hammer and pick
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The hammer and pick, rarely referred to as hammer and chisel, is a symbol of mining, often used in heraldry. It can indicate mining, mines, or miners, and is also borne as a charge in the coats of arm
Hammer and pick on the former administration building of the Bavarian Lignite Industry AG in Wackersdorf, Germany
Hammer
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A hammer is a tool, most often a hand tool, consisting of a weighted "head" fixed to a long handle that is swung to deliver an impact to an object. This can be used to drive nails into wood, to shape
Hammer and pick
…cartography), or miners, and is also borne as a charge in the coats of arms of mining towns. The symbol represents the traditional tools of the miner, a hammer and a chisel on a handle, similar to a pickaxe, but with one blunt end. They are pictured in the way a right-handed worker would lay them down: the…
A modern claw hammer suited to drive and remove nails
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Detail of the head of a war hammer
A geologist's hammer used to break up rocks, as seen in archaeology and prospecting