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Meaning of 'hammer'
Meaning of 'hammer' (Webster Dictionary)
1. Hammer 
[ n.]
- An instrument for driving nails, beating metals, and the
like, consisting of a head, usually of steel or iron, fixed crosswise
to a handle. [ n.]- Something which in firm or action resembles the common hammer
- That part of a clock which strikes upon the bell to indicate the hour.
- The padded mallet of a piano, which strikes the wires, to produce the tones.
- The malleus.
- 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.
- Also, a person of thing that smites or shatters; as, St. Augustine was the hammer of heresies.
2. Hammer [ v. i.]
- To be busy forming anything; to labor hard as if shaping
something with a hammer. [ v. i.]- To strike repeated blows, literally or figuratively.
3. Hammer [ v. t.]
- To beat with a hammer; to beat with heavy blows; as, to
hammer iron. [ v. t.]- To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.
- To form in the mind; to shape by hard intellectual labor; -- usually with out.
Meaning of 'hammer' (Princeton's WordNet)
1. hammer [ n]
[ n]Meaning (1):
- the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows)
- the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows)
Example in sentence:
- the pounding of feet on the hallway;
- the sudden hammer of fists caught him off guard
2. hammer [ v]
[ v]Meaning (2):
- beat with or as if with a hammer
- beat with or as if with a hammer
Example in sentence:
- hammer the metal flat
Meaning (3):
- create by hammering
- create by hammering
Example in sentence:
- forge a pair of tongues;
- hammer the silver into a bowl
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