'Hammer' definitions:
Definition of 'hammer'
(from WordNet)
noun
The part of a gunlock that strikes the percussion cap when the trigger is pulled [syn: hammer, cock]
noun
A hand tool with a heavy rigid head and a handle; used to deliver an impulsive force by striking
noun
The ossicle attached to the eardrum [syn: malleus, hammer]
noun
A light drumstick with a rounded head that is used to strike such percussion instruments as chimes, kettledrums, marimbas, glockenspiels, etc. [syn: mallet, hammer]
noun
A heavy metal sphere attached to a flexible wire; used in the hammer throw
noun
A striker that is covered in felt and that causes the piano strings to vibrate
noun
A power tool for drilling rocks [syn: hammer, power hammer]
noun
The act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows); "the sudden hammer of fists caught him off guard"; "the pounding of feet on the hallway" [syn: hammer, pound, hammering, pounding]
verb
Beat with or as if with a hammer; "hammer the metal flat"
verb
Create by hammering; "hammer the silver into a bowl"; "forge a pair of tongues" [syn: forge, hammer]
Definition of 'Hammer'
From: GCIDE
- Hammer \Ham"mer\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hammered (-m[~e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Hammering.]
- 1. To beat with a hammer; to beat with heavy blows; as, to hammer iron. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating. "Hammered money." --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To form in the mind; to shape by hard intellectual labor; -- usually with out. [1913 Webster]
- Who was hammering out a penny dialogue. --Jeffry. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Hammer'
From: GCIDE
- Hammer \Ham"mer\ (h[a^]m"m[~e]r), n. [OE. hamer, AS. hamer, hamor; akin to D. hamer, G. & Dan. hammer, Sw. hammare, Icel. hamarr, hammer, crag, and perh. to Gr. 'a`kmwn anvil, Skr. a[,c]man stone.]
- 1. An instrument for driving nails, beating metals, and the like, consisting of a head, usually of steel or iron, fixed crosswise to a handle. [1913 Webster]
- With busy hammers closing rivets up. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Something which in form or action resembles the common hammer; as: (a) That part of a clock which strikes upon the bell to indicate the hour. (b) The padded mallet of a piano, which strikes the wires, to produce the tones. (c) (Anat.) The malleus. See under Ear. (d) (Gun.) 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. (e) Also, a person or thing that smites or shatters; as, St. Augustine was the hammer of heresies. [1913 Webster]
- He met the stern legionaries [of Rome] who had been the "massive iron hammers" of the whole earth. --J. H. Newman. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Athletics) A spherical weight attached to a flexible handle and hurled from a mark or ring. The weight of head and handle is usually not less than 16 pounds. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- Atmospheric hammer, a dead-stroke hammer in which the spring is formed by confined air.
- Drop hammer, Face hammer, etc. See under Drop, Face, etc.
- Hammer fish. See Hammerhead.
- Hammer hardening, the process of hardening metal by hammering it when cold.
- Hammer shell (Zool.), any species of Malleus, a genus of marine bivalve shells, allied to the pearl oysters, having the wings narrow and elongated, so as to give them a hammer-shaped outline; -- called also hammer oyster.
- To bring to the hammer, to put up at auction. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Hammer'
From: GCIDE
- Hammer \Ham"mer\, v. i.
- 1. To be busy forming anything; to labor hard as if shaping something with a hammer. [1913 Webster]
- Whereon this month I have been hammering. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To strike repeated blows, literally or figuratively. [1913 Webster]
- Blood and revenge are hammering in my head. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'hammer'
From: Easton
- Hammer
- Heb. pattish, used by gold-beaters (Isa. 41:7) and by quarry-men (Jer. 23:29). Metaphorically of Babylon (Jer. 50:23) or Nebuchadnezzar.
- Heb. makabah, a stone-cutter's mallet (1 Kings 6:7), or of any workman (Judg. 4:21; Isa. 44:12).
- Heb. halmuth, a poetical word for a workman's hammer, found only in Judg. 5:26, where it denotes the mallet with which the pins of the tent of the nomad are driven into the ground.
- Heb. mappets, rendered "battle-axe" in Jer. 51:20. This was properly a "mace," which is thus described by Rawlinson: "The Assyrian mace was a short, thin weapon, and must either have been made of a very tough wood or (and this is more probable) of metal. It had an ornamented head, which was sometimes very beautifully modelled, and generally a strap or string at the lower end by which it could be grasped with greater firmness."
Synonyms of 'hammer'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- air hammer,
- anvil,
- assault,
- attack,
- auditory apparatus,
- auditory canal,
- auditory meatus,
- auditory nerve,
- auditory ossicles,
- auditory tube,
- auricle,
- ball peen hammer,
- bang,
- barbarize,
- basilar membrane,
- baste,
- batter,
- beat,
- beetle,
- belabor,
- bony labyrinth,
- brutalize,
- buffet,
- burn,
- butcher,
- carry on,
- cauliflower ear,
- chipping hammer,
- claw hammer,
- cochlea,
- conch,
- concha,
- destroy,
- dig,
- din,
- ding,
- drive,
- drop hammer,
- drub,
- drudge,
- drum,
- drumhead,
- ear,
- ear lobe,
- eardrum,
- elaborate,
- electric hammer,
- endolymph,
- Eustachian tube,
- external ear,
- fag,
- fashion,
- flail,
- flap,
- form,
- go on,
- grave,
- grind,
- grub,
- hammer away,
- incus,
- inner ear,
- jackhammer,
- knock,
- lambaste,
- larrup,
- lay waste,
- lobe,
- lobule,
- loot,
- lug,
- mallet,
- malleus,
- mastoid process,
- maul,
- middle ear,
- moil,
- mug,
- organ of Corti,
- outer ear,
- oval window,
- paste,
- patter,
- peg,
- peg away,
- pelt,
- perilymph,
- pile hammer,
- pillage,
- pinna,
- plod,
- plug,
- plug along,
- plug away,
- pommel,
- pound,
- pound away,
- pulverize,
- pummel,
- rage,
- raising hammer,
- ramp,
- rampage,
- rant,
- rap,
- rape,
- rave,
- riot,
- riveting hammer,
- roar,
- round window,
- rubber mallet,
- ruin,
- sack,
- savage,
- secondary eardrum,
- semicircular canals,
- shape,
- shell,
- slaughter,
- sledge,
- sledgehammer,
- slog,
- sow chaos,
- spank,
- stamp,
- stapes,
- steam hammer,
- stirrup,
- stone hammer,
- storm,
- stutter,
- tack hammer,
- tear,
- tear around,
- terrorize,
- thrash,
- thresh,
- thump,
- toil,
- travail,
- triphammer,
- tympanic cavity,
- tympanic membrane,
- tympanum,
- vandalize,
- vestibule,
- violate,
- wade through,
- wallop,
- whip,
- work away,
- wreck
Words containing 'Hammer'
- Hammerable,
- Hammered,
- Hammerer,
- Hammering,
- hammer in,
- hammer out,
- Atmospheric hammer,
- Bush hammer,
- Claw hammer,
- Cushioned hammer,
- Drop hammer,
- Enlarging hammer,
- Face hammer,
- Flogging hammer,
- Foot hammer,
- Fore hammer,
- Frontal hammer,
- Hammer break,
- Hammer fish,
- Hammer hardening,
- Hammer lock,
- Hammer shell,
- Lift hammer,
- Nose hammer,
- Pick hammer,
- Raising hammer,
- Set hammer,
- Shingling hammer,
- Stamp hammer,
- Steam hammer,
- Stone hammer,
- Tilt hammer,
- To bring to the hammer,
- Trip hammer,
- Water hammer,
- Wrench hammer,
- air hammer,
- bricklayer's hammer,
- carpenter's hammer,
- electric hammer,
- hammer and sickle,
- hammer and tongs,
- hammer away at,
- hammer nose,
- hammer oyster,
- hammer throw,
- pneumatic hammer,
- power hammer,
- sledge hammer,
- tack hammer,
- Claw hammer coat,
- Friction drop hammer,
- Gold-hammer,
- Hammer-beam,
- Hammer-dressed,
- Hammer-harden,
- Hammer-less,
- Patent-hammered,
- hammer-shaped,
- yellow-hammer,
- Dead-stroke hammer,
- Hammer-headed shark,
- ball-peen hammer