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HAMMERING
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”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
hammering (plural hammerings)
A period of being beaten or hammered.
A dented appearance on silverware, produced by successive blows of a hammer.
(slang) A heavy defeat.
Verb
hammering
present participle of hammer
Source: Wiktionary
HAMMER
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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