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Hammer
Hammer Ham"mer, n. (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.
HammerHammer Ham"mer, n. [OE. hamer, AS. hamer, hamor; akin to D.
hamer, G. & Dan. hammer, Sw. hammare, Icel. hamarr, hammer,
crag, and perh. to Gr. ? anvil, Skr. a?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.
With busy hammers closing rivets up. --Shak.
2. Something which in firm 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. (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 of thing that smites or shatters; as,
St. Augustine was the hammer of heresies.
He met the stern legionaries [of Rome] who had
been the ``massive iron hammers' of the whole
earth. --J. H.
Newman.
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 (Zo["o]l.), 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. HammerHammer Ham"mer, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hammered; p. pr. & vb.
n. Hammering.]
1. To beat with a hammer; to beat with heavy blows; as, to
hammer iron.
2. To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.
``Hammered money.' --Dryden.
3. To form in the mind; to shape by hard intellectual labor;
-- usually with out.
Who was hammering out a penny dialogue. --Jeffry. Hammer
Hammer Ham"mer, v. i.
1. To be busy forming anything; to labor hard as if shaping
something with a hammer.
Whereon this month I have hammering. --Shak.
2. To strike repeated blows, literally or figuratively.
Blood and revenge are hammering in my head. --Shak.
Meaning of HAMMER from wikipedia
- A
hammer is a tool, most
often a hand tool,
consisting of a
weighted "head"
fixed to a long
handle that is
swung to
deliver an
impact to a
small area of...
- Look up
hammer in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A
hammer is a type of tool.
Hammer or
HAMMER may also
refer to:
Hammer Film Productions, also known...
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Armand Douglas Hammer (born
August 28, 1986) is an
American actor. He
began his
acting career with
guest appearances in
several television series. His...
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Burrell (born
March 30, 1962),
better known by his
stage name MC
Hammer (or
simply Hammer), is an
American rapper known for hit
songs such as "U Can't Touch...
- The
hammer and
sickle (Unicode: U+262D ☭
HAMMER AND SICKLE) is a
communist symbol representing proletarian solidarity between agricultural and industrial...
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Armand Hammer (May 21, 1898: 16 –
December 10, 1990) was an
American business manager and owner. He
spent decades with
Occidental Petroleum in the mid...
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Pneumatic hammer may
refer to: Air
hammer (fabrication), a
pneumatic hand tool used to
carve in stone, and to
break or cut
metal objects apart Air
hammer (pile...
- A
hammer-on is a
playing technique performed on a
stringed instrument (especially on a
fretted string instrument, such as a guitar) by
sharply bringing...
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Michael Hammer or Mike
Hammer may
refer to:
Michael Hammer (politician) (born 1977),
Austrian politician Michael Armand Hammer (1955–2022),
American philanthropist...
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Hammer Film
Productions Ltd. is a
British film
production company based in London.
Founded in 1934, the
company is best
known for a
series of
Gothic horror...
