Hammer
['hæmə] or ['hæmɚ]
Definition
(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'.
(noun.) a hand tool with a heavy rigid head and a handle; used to deliver an impulsive force by striking.
(noun.) a power tool for drilling rocks.
(noun.) a striker that is covered in felt and that causes the piano strings to vibrate.
(noun.) the part of a gunlock that strikes the percussion cap when the trigger is pulled.
(noun.) a heavy metal sphere attached to a flexible wire; used in the hammer throw.
(verb.) beat with or as if with a hammer; 'hammer the metal flat'.
Editor: Yvonne--From WordNet
Definition
(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
(n.) That part of a clock which strikes upon the bell to indicate the hour.
(n.) The padded mallet of a piano, which strikes the wires, to produce the tones.
(n.) The malleus.
(n.) 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.
(n.) Also, a person of thing that smites or shatters; as, St. Augustine was the hammer of heresies.
(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.
(v. t.) To form in the mind; to shape by hard intellectual labor; -- usually with out.
(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.
Edited by Clifford
Definition
n. a tool for beating metal or driving nails: a striking-piece in the mechanism of a clock or piano: that part of the lock of a firearm which falls with a sharp blow and causes the discharge of the piece: the baton of an auctioneer a knock from which signifies that an article is sold: a small bone of the ear the malleus.—v.t. to drive shape or fashion with a hammer: to contrive by intellectual labour to excogitate (with out): to declare (a person) a defaulter on the Stock Exchange: to beat down the price of (a stock) to depress (a market).—ns. Hamm′er-beam a horizontal piece of timber in place of a tie-beam at or near the feet of a pair of rafters; Hamm′erhead Hamm′er-fish a rapacious fish of the shark family—from the shape of its head.—adj. Hamm′erheaded with a head shaped like a hammer: dull in intellect stupid.—n. Hamm′ering a dented appearance on silverware effected by successive blows of a hammer.—adj. Hamm′erless without a hammer—of a gun.—n. Hamm′erman a man who hammers as a blacksmith goldsmith &c.—Hammer-and-tongs with great noise and vigour violently.—Bring to the hammer to sell or cause to sell by auction; Up to the hammer first-rate.
Edited by Abraham
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of seeing a hammer, denotes you will have some discouraging obstacles to overcome in order to establish firmly your fortune.
Edited by Bradley
Unserious Contents or Definition
A small, busy implement carried by blacksmiths, geologists and Knockers for breaking iron, rock or friendship.
Editor: Rufus
Examples
- Pablo pulled and let go as the man had told him and the block snapped forward into place and the pistol was cocked with the hammer back. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- He coughed and spat and listened to the heavy machine gun hammer again below the bend. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Mr. Nasmyth not only invented the steam hammer, but the steam pile driver as well. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The farrier struck a blow upon them with his hammer, and the crowd groaned; but, no more was done. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- And he hammered at me with a wigor only to be equalled by the wigor with which he didn't hammer at his anwil. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Nobody has wrote a syllable to me concerning his making use of the hammer, or made the least complaint of him or you. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- They used them to hammer with, perhaps they used them to fight with, and perhaps they used bits of wood for similar purposes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- And he hammered at me with a wigor only to be equalled by the wigor with which he didn't hammer at his anwil. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- He hammered loudly at the knocker and pulled at the bell, but without any success. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Thus metals hammered, or repeatedly bent, grow hot in the bent or hammered part. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Man first discovered by observation or accident that certain stones were melted or softened by fire, and that the product could be hammered and shaped. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The required beliefs cannot be hammered in; the needed attitudes cannot be plastered on. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It was one of the irons I began to heat immediately, and one of the irons I kept hot, and hammered at, with a perseverance I may honestly admire. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- My father, Pip, he were given to drink, and when he were overtook with drink, he hammered away at my mother, most onmerciful. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Painting, chopping wood, hammering, plowing, washing, scrubbing, sewing, are all forms of work. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- They smelted iron by blowing up a charcoal fire, and wrought it by heating and hammering. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Old Man, the father and master of the group, would perhaps be engaged in hammering flints beside the fire. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It was hammering now again and his ears were deafened by the muzzle blast. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Sophia was hammering at a little country dance on the pianoforte. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Nothing was said in answer, but she heard a low hammering sound in his bedroom. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- This punching of the cold metal without cutting, boring, drilling, hammering, or otherwise shaping the metal, was indeed a revelation. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- They have a kind of hard flints, which, by grinding against other stones, they form into instruments, that serve instead of wedges, axes, and hammers. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- These hammers are inked from a pad, and at a central point deliver a printing blow on the paper below. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The lever and the pulley, lathe s, picks, saws, hammers, bronze operating-lances, sundials, water-clocks, the gnomon (a vertical pillar for determining the sun's altitude) were in use. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- These are driven in by heavy hammers until the stratum is cut through. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Thereupon, I had brought in all our hammers, one after another, but without avail. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The accompanying woodcut represents the largest of the four steam-hammers in Keyham factory. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
Typist: Wesley