noun. A hand tool consisting of a handle with a head of metal or other heavy rigid material that is attached at a right angle, used for striking or pounding.

noun. A tool or device similar in function or action to this striking tool, as.

noun. The part of a gunlock that hits the primer or firing pin or explodes the percussion cap and causes the gun to fire.

noun. One of the padded wooden pieces of a piano that strikes the strings.

noun. A part of an apparatus that strikes a gong or bell, as in a clock.

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noun. A metal ball weighing 16 pounds (7.2 kilograms) and having a long wire or wooden handle by which it is thrown for distance in track-and-field competition.

noun. A small mallet used by auctioneers.

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intransitive verb. To hit, especially repeatedly, with a hammer; pound. synonym: beat.

intransitive verb. To strike forcefully and repeatedly.

intransitive verb. To assault with military force.

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intransitive verb. To beat into a shape with a hammer or similar tool.

intransitive verb. To accomplish or produce with difficulty or effort. Often used with out.

intransitive verb. To put together, fasten, or seal, particularly with nails, by hammering.

intransitive verb. To force upon (someone) by constant repetition.

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intransitive verb. To cause harm, loss, or difficulty to (someone), especially repeatedly.

intransitive verb. To defeat soundly.

intransitive verb. To attack verbally.

intransitive verb. To deal repeated blows with or as if with a hammer; pummel.

intransitive verb. To undergo beating in the manner of a hammer.

intransitive verb. To keep at something continuously. Often used with away:

idiom. (under the hammer) For sale at an auction.

To stammer.

noun. A yellowhammer or bunting. As used in the following passage the meaning of the word is uncertain. See etymology.

To declare (a member) to be in default, after notice by hammering three times on the rostrum.

To beat down or depress (price or the market); bear.

To make a knocking noise, as a steam-pipe when steam is let on and a water-hammer is produced. See water-hammer, 2.

To beat or drive with or as if with a hammer; pound; beat: as, to hammer iron or steel; to hammer one with the fist.

To fasten with a hammer by nailing or otherwise; construct by the use of the hammer.

To form or forge with a hammer; shape by beating: often with out.

To work upon in the mind; contrive by intellectual labor; excogitate: usually with out: as, to hammer out a scheme.

To strike something repeatedly with or as if with a hammer.

To work industriously or persistently; be very busy; labor in contrivance: as, to be hammering away at an invention.

To be working or in agitation; keep up an excited action or state of feeling.

noun. In athletics, a 16-pound weight (or a 12-pound weight for school-boys), attached by ball-bearing to a wire handle, which competitors, standing in a marked circle, endeavor to throw as far as possible. The old-fashioned hammer had an ordinary stiff wooden handle.

noun. An instrument consisting of a solid head, usually of metal, but sometimes of wood or of stone, set crosswise to the handle, used for beating metals, driving nails or spikes, dressing or breaking stones, etc.; hence, a machine in which a heavy block of metal is used for such a purpose. See steam-hammer, tilt-hammer, trip-hammer.

noun. Something which resembles the common hammer in form, action, or use.

noun. A door-knocker.

noun. In anatomy, the malleus.

noun. The head of a sphyrnid or hammer-headed shark.

noun. Figuratively, an aggressive and destructive foe: as, a hammer of heretics (Latin malleus hœreticorum).

noun. Same as fylfot.

noun. A pendent ornament, usually of silver, found among relics of the prehistoric iron age in the north of Europe. It has somewhat the shape of a mallet, and is undoubtedly intended to represent a hammer as weapon or utensil.

intransitive verb. To be busy forming anything; to labor hard as if shaping something with a hammer.

intransitive verb. To strike repeated blows, literally or figuratively.

transitive verb. To beat with a hammer; to beat with heavy blows.

transitive verb. To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.