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verb

Hammer v. t. (past & past part. hammered; pres. part. hammering)

To beat with a hammer; to beat with heavy blows; as, to hammer iron.

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

To form in the mind; to shape by hard intellectual labor; usually with out. "Who was hammering out a penny dialogue."

Hammer v. i.

To be busy forming anything; to labor hard as if shaping something with a hammer. "Whereon this month I have been hammering."

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

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Etymology of 'Hammering'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Hammering" Quotes from Famous Books

... smithy. Abraham followed them. The forge was low, and the blacksmith was hammering over ...

— In The Boyhood of Lincoln - A Tale of the Tunker Schoolmaster and the Times of Black Hawk • Hezekiah Butterworth

... from their respective ships to the shore. Such boats are still used at the port to land goods—and also passengers, when the breakers are too high to admit of their being landed in small boats at the wooden pier. The surf-boats are bulky, broad, and flat, strongly built to stand severe hammering on the sand, and comparatively shallow at the stern, to admit of their being backed towards the beach, or hauled off to sea through the surf by means of a ...

— Six Months at the Cape • R.M. Ballantyne

... the middle for the purpose of attaching a withe to serve as a handle. In a few instances, I have noticed small hammers, usually egg-shaped, without a groove; and the battered or worn appearance at one end was all that induced the belief that they were ever used for hammering. ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 89, March, 1865 • Various

... elaborate mental processes. Despite all it meant to him to know his name at last, and that he was of honorable birth—knowledge without which life was an eternal disgrace and burden the one thing that was hammering in Freckles' heart and beating in his brain, past any attempted expression, was the fact that, while nameless and possibly born in shame, the Angel had told him that she loved him. He could find no word with which to begin to voice ...

— Freckles • Gene Stratton-Porter

... superior strength and weight to bring him victorious through every casual fray; and it had never before failed him. But that merciless, suffocating hold compelled him to abandon offensive measures to effect his escape. He stopped his wild and futile hammering and with his one free hand he grasped the back ...

— The Bars of Iron • Ethel May Dell

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