tamping bar

Other forms: tamping bars

Definitions of tamping bar
  1. noun
    a tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.)
    synonyms: tamp, tamper
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    a miner's tamping bar for ramming packing in over a blasting charge
    type of:
    tool
    an implement used in the practice of a vocation
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