HAMMER
\hˈamə], \hˈamə], \h_ˈa_m_ə]\
Definitions of HAMMER
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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of metals
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a hand tool with a heavy rigid head and a handle; used to deliver an impulsive force by striking
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a power tool for drilling rocks
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a striker that is covered in felt and that causes the piano strings to vibrate
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a heavy metal sphere attached to a flexible wire; used in the hammer throw
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an athletic competition in which a heavy metal ball that is attached to a flexible wire is hurled as far as possible
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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a hand tool with a heavy rigid head and a handle; used to deliver an impulsive force by striking
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a power tool for drilling rocks
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a striker that is covered in felt and that causes the piano strings to vibrate
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a heavy metal sphere attached to a flexible wire; used in the hammer throw
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an athletic competition in which a heavy metal ball that is attached to a flexible wire is hurled as far as possible
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beat with or as if with a hammer; "hammer the metal flat"
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create by hammering; "hammer the silver into a bowl"; "forge a pair of tongues"
By Princeton University
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An instrument for driving nails, beating metals, and the like, consisting of a head, usually of steel or iron, fixed crosswise to a handle.
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Something which in firm or action resembles the common hammer
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That part of a clock which strikes upon the bell to indicate the hour.
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The padded mallet of a piano, which strikes the wires, to produce the tones.
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The malleus.
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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.
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Also, a person of thing that smites or shatters; as, St. Augustine was the hammer of heresies.
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To beat with a hammer; to beat with heavy blows; as, to hammer iron.
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To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.
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To be busy forming anything; to labor hard as if shaping something with a hammer.
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To strike repeated blows, literally or figuratively.
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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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To form in the mind; to shape by hard intellectual labor; - usually with out.
By Oddity Software
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An instrument for driving nails, beating metals, and the like, consisting of a head, usually of steel or iron, fixed crosswise to a handle.
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Something which in firm or action resembles the common hammer
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That part of a clock which strikes upon the bell to indicate the hour.
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The padded mallet of a piano, which strikes the wires, to produce the tones.
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The malleus.
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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.
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Also, a person of thing that smites or shatters; as, St. Augustine was the hammer of heresies.
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To beat with a hammer; to beat with heavy blows; as, to hammer iron.
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To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.
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To be busy forming anything; to labor hard as if shaping something with a hammer.
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To strike repeated blows, literally or figuratively.
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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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To form in the mind; to shape by hard intellectual labor; - usually with out.
By Noah Webster.
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An instrument with a handle and iron head, used for driving nails, beating metals, etc.; anything resembling this tool.
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To pound; to drive, as a nail; to work out in the mind.
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To work hard.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A tool for beating, or driving nails: anything like a hammer, as the part of a clock that strikes the bell: the baton of an auctioneer.
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To drive or shape with a hammer: to contrive by intellectual labor.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To pound; drive; work out laboriously; toil.
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An implement for driving nails, beating, pounding, etc.
By James Champlin Fernald
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An instrument for driving nails, beating metals, &c.; what resembles a hammer in form or action, as the striker of a clock, the baton of an auctioneer.
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To beat or forge with a hammer; to conceive and produce with labour.
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To work; to labour in contrivance. To bring to the hammer, to put up to auction. Hammer and tongs, with noise and vigour.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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