HAMMER

hammer, pound, hammering, pounding

(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”

hammer

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

hammer, power hammer

(noun) a power tool for drilling rocks

hammer

(noun) a striker that is covered in felt and that causes the piano strings to vibrate

hammer, cock

(noun) the part of a gunlock that strikes the percussion cap when the trigger is pulled

hammer

(noun) a heavy metal sphere attached to a flexible wire; used in the hammer throw

mallet, hammer

(noun) a light drumstick with a rounded head that is used to strike such percussion instruments as chimes, kettledrums, marimbas, glockenspiels, etc.

malleus, hammer

(noun) the ossicle attached to the eardrum

hammer

(verb) beat with or as if with a hammer; “hammer the metal flat”

forge, hammer

(verb) create by hammering; “hammer the silver into a bowl”; “forge a pair of tongues”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

Hammer (plural Hammers)

(soccer) someone connected with West Ham Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.

Proper noun

Hammer

A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Hammer is the 1,661^st most common surname in the United States, belonging to 21,709 individuals. Hammer is most common among White (92.82%) individuals.

Etymology

Noun

hammer (plural hammers)

A tool with a heavy head and a handle used for pounding.

A moving part of a firearm that strikes the firing pin to discharge a gun.

(anatomy) The malleus, a small bone of the middle ear.

(music) In a piano or dulcimer, a piece of wood covered in felt that strikes the string.

(sports) A device made of a heavy steel ball attached to a length of wire, and used for throwing.

(curling) The last stone in an end.

(frisbee) A frisbee throwing style in which the disc is held upside-down with a forehand grip and thrown above the head.

Part of a clock that strikes upon a bell to indicate the hour.

One who, or that which, smites or shatters.

Verb

hammer (third-person singular simple present hammers, present participle hammering, simple past and past participle hammered)

To strike repeatedly with a hammer, some other implement, the fist, etc.

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

(figuratively) To emphasize a point repeatedly.

(sports) To hit particularly hard.

(cycling, intransitive, slang) To ride very fast.

(intransitive) To strike internally, as if hit by a hammer.

(transitive, slang, figuratively, sports) To defeat (a person, a team) resoundingly

(transitive, slang, computing) To make high demands on (a system or service).

(transitive, finance) To declare (a person) a defaulter on the stock exchange.

(transitive, finance) To beat down the price of (a stock), or depress (a market).

Source: Wiktionary

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Ham"mer, n. Etym: [OE. hamer, AS. hamer, hamor; akin to D. hamer, G. & Dan. hammer, Sw. hammare, Icel. hamarr, hammer, crag, and perh. to Gr. a 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. Shak.

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.)

Definition: 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. J. H. Newman. 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 (Zoöl.), 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.

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. Jeffry.

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. Shak.

2. To strike repeated blows, literally or figuratively. Blood and revenge are hammering in my head. Shak.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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