hammer.
A tool with a heavy head and a handle used for pounding.
Meaning & usage
A tool with a heavy head and a handle used for pounding.
Bobby used a hammer and nails to fix the two planks together.
The act of using a hammer to hit something.
The nail is too loose—give it a hammer.
The malleus, a small bone of the middle ear.
In a piano or dulcimer, a piece of wood covered in felt that strikes the string.
The sound the piano makes comes from the hammers striking the strings
A device made of a heavy steel ball attached to a length of wire, and used for throwing.
The last stone in an end.
A frisbee throw in which the disc is held upside-down with a forehand grip and thrown forwards above the head.
Part of a clock that strikes upon a bell to indicate the hour.
One who, or that which, smites or shatters.
St. Augustine was the hammer of heresies.
Ellipsis of hammer headline.
The accelerator pedal.
A moving part of a firearm that strikes the firing pin to discharge a gun.
A handgun.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *hamaraz Proto-West Germanic *hamar Old English hamor Middle English hamer English hammer From Middle English hamer, from Old English hamor, from Proto-West Germanic *hamar, from Proto-Germanic *hamaraz (“tool with a stone head”) (compare West Frisian hammer, Low German Hamer, Dutch hamer, German Hammer, Danish hammer, Swedish hammare). This is traditionally ascribed to Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱmoros, from *h₂éḱmō (“stone”), but see *hamaraz for further discussion. (declare a defaulter on the stock exchange): Originally signalled by knocking with a wooden mallet.
To strike repeatedly with a hammer, some other implement, the fist, etc.
Tony hammered on the door to try to get him to open.
To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.
To emphasize a point repeatedly.
To hit particularly hard.
To ride very fast.
To strike internally, as if hit by a hammer.
I could hear the engine’s valves hammering once the timing rod was thrown.
To defeat (a person, a team) resoundingly.
We hammered them 5-0!
To make high demands on (a system or service).
To declare (a person) a defaulter on the stock exchange.
To beat down the price of (a stock), or depress (a market).
To have hard sex with.
To overcook (something).
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *hamaraz Proto-West Germanic *hamar Old English hamor Middle English hamer English hammer From Middle English hamer, from Old English hamor, from Proto-West Germanic *hamar, from Proto-Germanic *hamaraz (“tool with a stone head”) (compare West Frisian hammer, Low German Hamer, Dutch hamer, German Hammer, Danish hammer, Swedish hammare). This is traditionally ascribed to Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱmoros, from *h₂éḱmō (“stone”), but see *hamaraz for further discussion. (declare a defaulter on the stock exchange): Originally signalled by knocking with a wooden mallet.
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