"bott hammer" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1859, Alex. Hunter, “The Raw Products of India suited to the Manufacturing Wants of Great Britain”, in The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, volume 10, page 188",
          "text": "The bott-hammer is sometimes used for bruising or crushing fibrous plants; it consists of a wooden block, having on its under face channels or flutings which run across its surface; the block is fixed to a long belt-helve or handle, and may be worked singly, or several hammers may be worked in a row by machinery.",
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          "ref": "1868, Baden Henry Baden-Powell, Hand-book of the Economic Products of the Punjab, page 500",
          "text": "The same was also effected by the bott hammer, a flat mallet, with its face cut into grooves, the handle to it being curved, and this being repeatedly struck on a quantity of fibre spread out on a board, first on one side and then on the other.",
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          "text": "In Austria and other European countries a more primitive, but, it is claimed, less injurious method of breaking is pursued, in which the fibre is opened with a \"bott hammer\" (batting hammer), which is made of wood ridged like a cook's implement for pounding steak.",
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        "A hammer used to process flax."
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        "(obsolete) A hammer used to process flax."
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