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8 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Hammer \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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Hammer \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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: hammer n 1: the part of a gunlock that strikes the percussion cap when the trigger is pulled 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: the felt-covered striker that causes the piano strings to vibrate 7: a power tool for drilling rocks [syn: {power hammer}] 8: a small mallet used by a presiding officer or a judge [syn: {gavel}] 9: 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 2: of metals [syn: {forge}] From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [jargon]: hammer vt Commonwealth hackish syn. for {bang on}. From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [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."
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