hammered
(adjective) shaped or worked with a hammer and often showing hammer marks; “a bowl of hammered brass”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
hammered (comparative more hammered, superlative most hammered)
Having been hit with a hammer or hammer-like object.
(UK, slang) very drunk; inebriated.
• See also drunk
hammered
simple past tense and past participle of hammer
Source: Wiktionary
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
8 February 2025
(noun) the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state; “the state has lowered its income tax”
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
