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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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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]
Meaning (1):
- 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]
Meaning (2):
- create by hammering
Example in sentence:
  • forge a pair of tongues;
  • hammer the silver into a bowl
Meaning (3):
- beat with or as if with a hammer
Example in sentence:
  • hammer the metal flat

Nearby Words:

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