Hammer

8 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Hammer \Ham"mer\ (h[a^]m"m[~e]r), n. [OE. hamer, AS. hamer,
     hamor; akin to D. hamer, G. & Dan. hammer, Sw. hammare, Icel.
     hamarr, hammer, crag, and perh. to Gr. 'a`kmwn anvil, Skr.
     a[,c]man stone.]
     1. 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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              With busy hammers closing rivets up.  --Shak.
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     2. Something which in form or action resembles the common
        hammer; as:
        (a) That part of a clock which strikes upon the bell to
            indicate the hour.
        (b) The padded mallet of a piano, which strikes the wires,
            to produce the tones.
        (c) (Anat.) The malleus. See under {Ear}.
        (d) (Gun.) 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.
        (e) Also, a person or thing that smites or shatters; as,
            St. Augustine was the hammer of heresies.
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                  He met the stern legionaries [of Rome] who had
                  been the "massive iron hammers" of the whole
                  earth.                            --J. H.
                                                    Newman.
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     3. (Athletics) 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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     {Atmospheric hammer}, a dead-stroke hammer in which the
        spring is formed by confined air.
  
     {Drop hammer}, {Face hammer}, etc. See under {Drop}, {Face},
        etc.
  
     {Hammer fish}. See {Hammerhead}.
  
     {Hammer hardening}, the process of hardening metal by
        hammering it when cold.
  
     {Hammer shell} (Zool.), any species of {Malleus}, a genus of
        marine bivalve shells, allied to the pearl oysters, having
        the wings narrow and elongated, so as to give them a
        hammer-shaped outline; -- called also {hammer oyster}.
  
     {To bring to the hammer}, to put up at auction.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Hammer \Ham"mer\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Hammered} (-m[~e]rd); p.
     pr. & vb. n. {Hammering}.]
     1. To beat with a hammer; to beat with heavy blows; as, to
        hammer iron.
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     2. To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.
        "Hammered money." --Dryden.
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     3. To form in the mind; to shape by hard intellectual labor;
        -- usually with out.
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              Who was hammering out a penny dialogue. --Jeffry.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Hammer \Ham"mer\, v. i.
     1. To be busy forming anything; to labor hard as if shaping
        something with a hammer.
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              Whereon this month I have been hammering. --Shak.
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     2. To strike repeated blows, literally or figuratively.
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              Blood and revenge are hammering in my head. --Shak.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  hammer
       n 1: the part of a gunlock that strikes the percussion cap when
            the trigger is pulled [syn: {cock}]
       2: a hand tool with a heavy rigid head and a handle; used to
          deliver an impulsive force by striking
       3: an athletic competition in which a heavy metal ball that is
          attached to a flexible wire is hurled as far as possible
          [syn: {hammer throw}]
       4: the ossicle attached to the eardrum [syn: {malleus}]
       5: a heavy metal sphere attached to a flexible wire; used in
          the hammer throw
       6: a striker that is covered in felt and that causes the piano
          strings to vibrate
       7: a power tool for drilling rocks [syn: {power hammer}]
       8: the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows); "the
          sudden hammer of fists caught him off guard"; "the
          pounding of feet on the hallway" [syn: {pound}, {hammering},
           {pounding}]
       v 1: beat with or as if with a hammer; "hammer the metal flat"
       2: create by hammering; "hammer the silver into a bowl"; "forge
          a pair of tongues" [syn: {forge}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  153 Moby Thesaurus words for "hammer":
     Eustachian tube, air hammer, anvil, assault, attack,
     auditory apparatus, auditory canal, auditory meatus,
     auditory nerve, auditory ossicles, auditory tube, auricle,
     ball peen hammer, bang, barbarize, basilar membrane, baste, batter,
     beat, beetle, belabor, bony labyrinth, brutalize, buffet, burn,
     butcher, carry on, cauliflower ear, chipping hammer, claw hammer,
     cochlea, conch, concha, destroy, dig, din, ding, drive,
     drop hammer, drub, drudge, drum, drumhead, ear, ear lobe, eardrum,
     elaborate, electric hammer, endolymph, external ear, fag, fashion,
     flail, flap, form, go on, grave, grind, grub, hammer away, incus,
     inner ear, jackhammer, knock, lambaste, larrup, lay waste, lobe,
     lobule, loot, lug, mallet, malleus, mastoid process, maul,
     middle ear, moil, mug, organ of Corti, outer ear, oval window,
     paste, patter, peg, peg away, pelt, perilymph, pile hammer,
     pillage, pinna, plod, plug, plug along, plug away, pommel, pound,
     pound away, pulverize, pummel, rage, raising hammer, ramp, rampage,
     rant, rap, rape, rave, riot, riveting hammer, roar, round window,
     rubber mallet, ruin, sack, savage, secondary eardrum,
     semicircular canals, shape, shell, slaughter, sledge, sledgehammer,
     slog, sow chaos, spank, stamp, stapes, steam hammer, stirrup,
     stone hammer, storm, stutter, tack hammer, tear, tear around,
     terrorize, thrash, thresh, thump, toil, travail, triphammer,
     tympanic cavity, tympanic membrane, tympanum, vandalize, vestibule,
     violate, wade through, wallop, whip, work away, wreck
  
  

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  hammer vt. Commonwealth hackish syn. for {bang on}.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  hammer
       
          Commonwealth hackish synonym for {bang on}.
       
          [{Jargon File}]
       
          (1995-02-16)
       
       

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Hammer
     (1.) Heb. pattish, used by gold-beaters (Isa. 41:7) and by
     quarry-men (Jer. 23:29). Metaphorically of Babylon (Jer. 50:23)
     or Nebuchadnezzar.
     
       (2.) Heb. makabah, a stone-cutter's mallet (1 Kings 6:7), or
     of any workman (Judg. 4:21; Isa. 44:12).
     
       (3.) Heb. halmuth, a poetical word for a workman's hammer,
     found only in Judg. 5:26, where it denotes the mallet with which
     the pins of the tent of the nomad are driven into the ground.
     
       (4.) Heb. mappets, rendered "battle-axe" in Jer. 51:20. This
     was properly a "mace," which is thus described by Rawlinson:
     "The Assyrian mace was a short, thin weapon, and must either
     have been made of a very tough wood or (and this is more
     probable) of metal. It had an ornamented head, which was
     sometimes very beautifully modelled, and generally a strap or
     string at the lower end by which it could be grasped with
     greater firmness."