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Hammer   /hˈæmər/   Listen
Hammer

noun
1.
The part of a gunlock that strikes the percussion cap when the trigger is pulled.  Synonym: cock.
2.
A hand tool with a heavy rigid head and a handle; used to deliver an impulsive force by striking.
3.
The ossicle attached to the eardrum.  Synonym: malleus.
4.
A light drumstick with a rounded head that is used to strike such percussion instruments as chimes, kettledrums, marimbas, glockenspiels, etc..  Synonym: mallet.
5.
A heavy metal sphere attached to a flexible wire; used in the hammer throw.
6.
A striker that is covered in felt and that causes the piano strings to vibrate.
7.
A power tool for drilling rocks.  Synonym: power hammer.
8.
The act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows).  Synonyms: hammering, pound, pounding.  "The pounding of feet on the hallway"
verb
(past & past part. hammered; pres. part. hammering)
1.
Beat with or as if with a hammer.
2.
Create by hammering.  Synonym: forge.  "Forge a pair of tongues"



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"Hammer" Quotes from Famous Books



... are the ruins of St. Catharine's Chapel, built in the fourteenth century. The local tradition tells that this and St. Martha's Chapel, on an adjacent hill, were built by two sister-giantesses, who worked with a single hammer, which they flung from hill to hill to each other as required. St. Catharine's Chapel long since fell in ruins, and not far away on the slope, St. Catharine's Spring flows perennially. On Albury Down is a residence of the Duke of Northumberland, Albury Park, laid out in the seventeenth ...
— England, Picturesque and Descriptive - A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel • Joel Cook
... day the Dream came to Big Ivan as he plowed. It was a wonder dream. It sprang into his brain as he walked behind the plow, and for a few minutes he quivered as the big bridge quivers when the Beresina sends her ice squadrons to hammer the arches. It made his heart pound mightily, and his lips and throat became ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1915 - And the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various
... God, I am glad of it; I thought our hammer of destruction, our thunderbolt, whom the Greeks called Achilles, must be known to the people of Horncastle. Well, Hunyadi and Corvinus ...
— The Romany Rye - A Sequel to 'Lavengro' • George Borrow
... joint proprietors. In the making of it, the hammer and nails were mine by right of sex, while she stitched in womanish fashion on the fabrics. She was leading woman and I was either the hero or the villain as fitted to my mood. My younger cousin—although we scorned her for ...
— There's Pippins And Cheese To Come • Charles S. Brooks
... them, meeting them just abreast of Roger. The first man he met thrust at him with his spear, but Oswald parried with his sword, and with a back-handed blow smote the man just under the chin, and he fell with a crash from his horse. At the same moment he heard a blow like that of a smith's hammer, as Roger's staff fell upon the steel cap of the ...
— Both Sides the Border - A Tale of Hotspur and Glendower • G. A. Henty


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