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noun
Peen  n.  
1.
A round-edged, or hemispherical, end to the head of a hammer or sledge, used to stretch or bend metal by indentation.
2.
The sharp-edged end of the head of a mason's hammer. (Spelt also pane, pein, and piend)


verb
Peen  v. t.  To draw, bend, or straighten, as metal, by blows with the peen of a hammer or sledge.





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"Peen" Quotes from Famous Books



... offer me millions," cried Kolb, "but not ein vort from me shall dey traw. Haf I not peen in der army, and know ...
— Eve and David • Honore de Balzac
... with beautiful reddish goolden hair that a tiara looks well in an' that is betther f'r havin' a tiara. She is not as young as she was. Th' simple home-lovin' maiden that our fathers knew has disappeared an' in her place we find a Columbya, gintlemen, with machurer charms, a knowledge iv Euro-peen customs an' not averse to a cigareet. So we have pinned in her fair hair a diadem that sets off her beauty to advantage an' holds on th' front iv th' hair, an' th' mos' lovely pearl in this ornymint is thim sunny little isles iv th' ...
— Observations by Mr. Dooley • Finley Peter Dunne
... just like a woman!" yelled Behrman. "Who said I will not bose? Go on. I come mit you. For half an hour I haf peen trying to say dot I am ready to bose. Gott! dis is not any blace in which one so goot as Miss Yohnsy shall lie sick. Some day I vill baint a masterpiece, and ve shall all go ...
— The Trimmed Lamp and Others • O Henry
... hardship had to be borne, and many an insult patiently endured in poverty and distress, before the Friday morning in August, 1492, when his three caravels, the Santa Maria (sahn'-tah mah-ree'-ah), the Pinta (peen'-tah), and the Nina (neen'-yah), sailed from the port of Palos (pah'-los), ...
— A School History of the United States • John Bach McMaster


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