Meaning of hammer pond | Babel Free

Definitions

The millpond of an iron forge, especially in the Weald.

historical

Examples

“[T]hroughout the Southern Weald, from Hastings to Hind-head, every copse glared with charcoal-heaps, every glen was burrowed with iron diggings, every hammer-pond stamped and gurgled night and day, smelting and forging English iron[.]”

“In later years the waters were converted into a hammer pond to power the furnaces and hammers of an ironworks.”

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