Crossword-Solution: HAMMERIN 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 15

Has Eileen been around while this room was being altered?” “She came in yesterday,” answered Katy, “when the hammerin’ and sawin’ was goin’ full blast.” “What I wanted to find out’” said Linda, “was whether she had been here and seen this room or not, because if she hasn’t and she wants to see it, now is her time.

One minute I'd see the skipper and the mate h'isted up in the air, hammerin' for dear life, and then, swash! under they'd go, clear under, and stay there, seemed to me, forever.

There was the cutter’s innards spread out like a Fratton pawnbroker’s shop; there was the ‘tiffies’ hammerin’ in the stern of ’er, an’ _they_ ain’t antiseptic; there was the Maxim class in light skirmishin’ order among the pork, an’ forrard the blacksmith had ’is forge in full blast, makin’ ’orse-shoes, I suppose.

You see w'en it blows very hard, the breakers have not time to come down on us with a 'eavy tellin' blow, they goes tumblin' and swashin' round us and over us, hammerin' away wildly every how, or nohow, or anyhow, just like a hexcited man fightin' in a hurry.

Besides all these noises over our heads there was the poundin an hammerin behind us from the guns themselves.