blow

A fabricator is used to direct a sharp blow to the surface of the stone.

There he found that […] Hanno's camp was crowded with cattle and carriages, and a mixed multitude of unarmed men, and even of women and children; and that a vigorous blow might win it with all its spoil: the indefatigable general was absent, scouring the country for additional supplies of corn.

A further blow to the group came in 1917 when Thomson died while canoeing in Algonquin Park.

Click goes his shears; click, click, click. / Wide are the blows, and his hand is moving quick, / The ringer looks round, for he lost it by a blow, / And he curses that old shearer with the bare belled ewe.

The blow is important because it transitions the reader and eventually the audience from one scene to another.