Hammered
['hæməd]
Definition
(adj.) shaped or worked with a hammer and often showing hammer marks; 'a bowl of hammered brass' .
Edited by Annabel--From WordNet
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Hammer
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Examples
- 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.
- As to gold, silver and lead, they doubtless were found first in their native state and mixed with other ores and were hammered into the desired shapes with the hardest stone implements. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- And then he took us home and hammered us. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- On Wednesday it was still unfinished, so I hammered away until Friday--that is, yesterday. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- I have hammered at the door myself--and all to no purpose. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Possibly they first found native copper and hammered it into shape. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We are quiet here; we don't get badgered here; there's no knocker here, sir, to be hammered at by creditors and bring a man's heart into his mouth. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Six years I hammered at the fiddle. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
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