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hammer
/ˈhæmɚ/
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What does hammer mean?
noun
- A tool with a heavy head and a handle used for pounding.
- The act of using a hammer to hit something.
- The malleus, a small bone of the middle ear.
More meanings (24)
noun
- In a piano or dulcimer, a piece of wood covered in felt that strikes the string.
- A device made of a heavy steel ball attached to a length of wire, and used for throwing.
- The last stone in an end.
- A frisbee throw in which the disc is held upside-down with a forehand grip and thrown forwards above the head.
- Part of a clock that strikes upon a bell to indicate the hour.
- One who, or that which, smites or shatters.
- Ellipsis of hammer headline.
- The accelerator pedal.
- A moving part of a firearm that strikes the firing pin to discharge a gun.
- (slang) A handgun.
- someone connected with West Ham Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.
verb
- To strike repeatedly with a hammer, some other implement, the fist, etc.
- To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.
- (figuratively) To emphasize a point repeatedly.
- To hit particularly hard.
- (slang) To ride very fast.
- To strike internally, as if hit by a hammer.
- (figuratively, slang) To defeat (a person, a team) resoundingly.
- (slang) To make high demands on (a system or service).
- To declare (a person) a defaulter on the stock exchange.
- To beat down the price of (a stock), or depress (a market).
- To have hard sex with.
- To overcook (something).
proper noun
- A surname.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈhæmɚ/
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Fauchelevent, hardly able to draw his breath for trembling, seized his cold chisel and his hammer, and pried up the coffin lid.
“Come, now, young un,” said the auctioneer, giving the boy a touch with his hammer, “be up and show your springs, now.”
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I was of opinion that the hammer might prove exceedingly useful in forging anchors and large iron work in those great establishments.
As we pass this clearing, the settler leans upon his axe or hammer, and looks wistfully at the people from the world.
This came directly down from the plateau, and to sit with exposed fingers handling hammer and nails was not an enviable job.