"drop hammer" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1961 November, “Talking of Trains: The North Eastern's new rail-mounted piling unit”, in Trains Illustrated, page 646:",
          "text": "On embankments these troughs are supported by piles driven into the ground and recent practice has been to drive them in by a drop hammer, manually operated from a railway wagon, [...].",
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      "glosses": [
        "A heavy weight that is raised and then allowed to drop, as used for piledriving and drop-forging."
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        [
          "piledriving",
          "piledriving"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(mechanical engineering) A heavy weight that is raised and then allowed to drop, as used for piledriving and drop-forging."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "engineering",
        "mechanical",
        "mechanical-engineering",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences"
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  "word": "drop hammer"
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        {
          "ref": "1961 November, “Talking of Trains: The North Eastern's new rail-mounted piling unit”, in Trains Illustrated, page 646:",
          "text": "On embankments these troughs are supported by piles driven into the ground and recent practice has been to drive them in by a drop hammer, manually operated from a railway wagon, [...].",
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A heavy weight that is raised and then allowed to drop, as used for piledriving and drop-forging."
      ],
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          "mechanical engineering",
          "mechanical engineering"
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          "piledriving",
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        "(mechanical engineering) A heavy weight that is raised and then allowed to drop, as used for piledriving and drop-forging."
      ],
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        "mechanical",
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