hammer

[ham·mer]

A hammer is a tool you can use to drive nails into wood or other materials. You'll find a hammer in just about any toolbox, since it's useful for hanging pictures, making repairs, or breaking things apart.

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An instrument for driving nails, beating metals, and the like, consisting of a head, usually of steel or iron, fixed crosswise to a handle.

Noun
the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows); "the sudden hammer of fists caught him off guard"; "the pounding of feet on the hallway"

Noun
a hand tool with a heavy rigid head and a handle; used to deliver an impulsive force by striking

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a power tool for drilling rocks

Noun
a striker that is covered in felt and that causes the piano strings to vibrate

Noun
the part of a gunlock that strikes the percussion cap when the trigger is pulled

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Noun
a heavy metal sphere attached to a flexible wire; used in the hammer throw

Noun
the ossicle attached to the eardrum

Noun
an athletic competition in which a heavy metal ball that is attached to a flexible wire is hurled as far as possible

Verb
beat with or as if with a hammer; "hammer the metal flat"

Verb
create by hammering; "hammer the silver into a bowl"; "forge a pair of tongues"

n.
An instrument for driving nails, beating metals, and the like, consisting of a head, usually of steel or iron, fixed crosswise to a handle.

n.
Something which in firm or action resembles the common hammer

n.
That part of a clock which strikes upon the bell to indicate the hour.

n.
The padded mallet of a piano, which strikes the wires, to produce the tones.

n.
The malleus.

n.
That part of a gunlock which strikes the percussion cap, or firing pin; the cock; formerly, however, a piece of steel covering the pan of a flintlock musket and struck by the flint of the cock to ignite the priming.

n.
Also, a person of thing that smites or shatters; as, St. Augustine was the hammer of heresies.

v. t.
To beat with a hammer; to beat with heavy blows; as, to hammer iron.

v. t.
To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.

v. t.
To form in the mind; to shape by hard intellectual labor; -- usually with out.

v. i.
To be busy forming anything; to labor hard as if shaping something with a hammer.

v. i.
To strike repeated blows, literally or figuratively.

Hammer

Ham"mer , n. [OE. hamer, AS. hamer, hamor; akin to D. hamer, G. & Dan. hammer, Sw. hammare, Icel. hamarr, hammer, crag, and perh. to Gr. anvil, Skr. aman stone.] 1. An instrument for driving nails, beating metals, and the like, consisting of a head, usually of steel or iron, fixed crosswise to a handle.
With busy hammers closing rivets up.
2. Something which in firm or action resembles the common hammer; as: (a) That part of a clock which strikes upon the bell to indicate the hour. (b) The padded mallet of a piano, which strikes the wires, to produce the tones. (c) (Anat.) The malleus. See under Ear. (Gun.) That part of a gunlock which strikes the percussion cap, or firing pin; the cock; formerly, however, a piece of steel covering the pan of a flintlock musket and struck by the flint of the cock to ignite the priming. (e) Also, a person of thing that smites or shatters; as, St. Augustine was the hammer of heresies.
He met the stern legionaries [of Rome] who had been the "massive iron hammers" of the whole earth.
Atmospheric hammer, a dead-stroke hammer in which the spring is formed by confined air. -- Drop hammer, Face hammer, etc. See under Drop, Face, etc. -- Hammer fish. See Hammerhead. -- Hammer hardening, the process of hardening metal by hammering it when cold. -- Hammer shell (Zo'94l.), any species of Malleus, a genus of marine bivalve shells, allied to the pearl oysters, having the wings narrow and elongated, so as to give them a hammer-shaped outline; -- called also hammer oyster. -- To bring to the hammer, to put up at auction.

Hammer

Ham"mer, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hammered ; p. pr. & vb. n. Hammering.] 1. To beat with a hammer; to beat with heavy blows; as, to hammer iron. 2. To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating. "Hammered money." Dryden. 3. To form in the mind; to shape by hard intellectual labor; -- usually with out.
Who was hammering out a penny dialogue.

Hammer

Ham"mer, v. i. 1. To be busy forming anything; to labor hard as if shaping something with a hammer.
Whereon this month I have hammering.
2. To strike repeated blows, literally or figuratively.
Blood and revenge are hammering in my head.

An instrument for driving nails, beating metals, and the like, consisting of a head, usually of steel or iron, fixed crosswise to a handle.

To beat with a hammer; to beat with heavy blows; as, to hammer iron.

To be busy forming anything; to labor hard as if shaping something with a hammer.

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Usage Examples

Before I was married, I didn't consider my failure to manage even basic hand tools a feminist inadequacy. I thought it had more to do with being Jewish. The Jews I knew growing up didn't do 'do-it-yourself.' When my father needed to hammer something he generally used his shoe, and the only real tool he owned was a pair of needle-nose pliers.

I think that my vampires in general were influenced by my being allowed to watch the Hammer vampire films. Vampire Circus, also shown as Circus of Fear, was one of those movies.

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Other Usage Examples

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

I have the greatest sympathy with the growth of the socialist party. I think they understand the evils that surround us and hammer them into people's minds better than we Liberals.