slate-hammer

Updated: May 2, 2025

And before I had time to ask, "Who goes there?" as in this solitude one might do a slight, short man, whom I knew by sight as a workman of Aber-Aydyr, named Evan Peters, was close to me, and was swinging a slate-hammer in one hand, and bore in the other a five-foot staff.

R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore - George Bowring - A Tale Of Cader Idris: From "Slain By The Doones" By R. D. Blackmore