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Mon′key-ham′mer.

A drop-press in which the hammer is a falling weight; called by the same name as the hammer of a pile-driving machine. In it various articles of jewelry, etc., are stamped out, the strip of gold being laid upon the lower die and impressed between it and the upper die, which descends in guides when the workman slacks the rope by raising the stirrup.

Monkey-press.

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