oliver

[From the name of the inventor.] A small lift-hammer, worked by the foot. The hammer-head is about 21⁄2 inches square and 10 inches long, with a swage tool, having a conical crease, attached to it, and a corresponding swage is fixed in a square cast-iron anvil-block, about 12 inches square and 6 deep, with one or two round holes for punching, . *ol-i-vere, s. [Fr. olivier , from olive =an olive.] An olive-tree. "And they brent all the cornes of that lond And all hir oliveres , and vines eke." Chaucer: C. T., 14,042.