Details of word HAMMER

Definition of 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.
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.
n. - 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.

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