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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

... my father, in a great voice, like one who would startle a creature out of mania, "you will write a deed in your legal manner granting these lands to your brother's child. And after that"—his words were like the blows of a hammer on an anvil—"I will give you until daybreak to vanish out of our sight and hearing—through the gap in the mountains into Maryland on your horse, as you say your brother David went, or into the abandoned cistern in the ancient ...

— The Sleuth of St. James's Square • Melville Davisson Post

... nails (those with gold- plated heads found at Shahrein may also date from this time); drab or black pottery sherds with impressed or incised designs, generally rough and evidently made with a piece of stick or the thumb-nail; rough stone quern-slabs with rubbers, grinding and hammer-stones, &c.; and the burials described above (these, however, ...

— How to Observe in Archaeology • Various

... conserved. Papa said after dinner yesterday that everything English ought to be maintained. Everett said that according to that we should have kept the Star Chamber. "Of course I would," said papa. Then they went at it, hammer and tongs. Everett had the best of it. At any rate he talked the longest. But I do hope he is not a Radical. No country gentleman ought to be ...

— The Prime Minister • Anthony Trollope

... Monroe leading, swung on their way. Twenty minutes more passed. Tom's heart was beating like a trip-hammer and there was a drawn look about his face which showed that he was nearly done. Bob, who had not uttered a word since he first saw the kite, and who had not varied his pace by a fraction since he began, was jogging along as though he were a machine. Monroe ...

— The Boy with the U. S. Weather Men • Francis William Rolt-Wheeler

... string, and the carrying power of the sound proportionately fails. If the string be struck upon a node, greater energy ensues, and the carrying power proportionately gains. By this we recognize the importance of the place of contact, or striking-place of the hammer against the string; and the necessity, in order to obtain good fundamental tone, which shall carry, of the note being started ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883 • Various

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