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What (who) is hammer - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
The Hammer (movie); The Hammer; The Hammer (film); The Hammer (nickname); HAMMER (disambiguation); HAMMER; Hammer (automobile)
hammer
![Cartwheel [[mallet]]s with heads of felt held between steel washers for use with [[timpani]] drums](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Cartwheel mallets.JPG?width=200 "Cartwheel [[mallet]]s with heads of felt held between steel washers for use with [[timpani]] drums")
![nails]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Claw-hammer.jpg?width=200 "nails]]")
![A T-shaped hammer in the upper left corner of the coat of arms of [[Tampere]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tampere.vaakuna.svg?width=200 "A T-shaped hammer in the upper left corner of the coat of arms of [[Tampere]]")
![A [[geologist's hammer]] used to break up rocks, as seen in [[archaeology]] and [[prospecting]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Turonian Jerusalem Stone 031612.JPG?width=200 "A [[geologist's hammer]] used to break up rocks, as seen in [[archaeology]] and [[prospecting]]")
![Dover Township, Minnesota]] dated to 8000–3000 BCE, the [[North American Archaic period]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/StoneHammerDoverMN.JPG?width=200 "Dover Township, Minnesota]] dated to 8000–3000 BCE, the [[North American Archaic period]]")
![Ancient Greek bronze sacrificial hammer, 7th century BCE, from [[Dodona]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sacrificial hammer Dodona Louvre Br1183 n2.jpg?width=200 "Ancient Greek bronze sacrificial hammer, 7th century BCE, from [[Dodona]]")
![Dürer]]'s ''[[Melencolia I]]'' (c. 1514)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Melencolia I (Durero) hammer crop.jpg?width=200 "Dürer]]'s ''[[Melencolia I]]'' (c. 1514)")
![[[Ball-peen hammer]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Buck Knives Hammer (5075278861).jpg?width=200 "[[Ball-peen hammer]]")
![[[Bush hammer]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Stockhammer.JPG?width=200 "[[Bush hammer]]")
![[[Claw hammer]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hammer2.jpg?width=200 "[[Claw hammer]]")
![[[Framing hammer]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Framing hammer.jpg?width=200 "[[Framing hammer]]")
![[[Geologist's hammer]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/BrokenConcretion22.jpg?width=200 "[[Geologist's hammer]]")
![HiFIT]]-hammer for aftertreatment of weld transitions](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hifit-hammer.jpg?width=200 "HiFIT]]-hammer for aftertreatment of weld transitions")
![[[Rock climbing hammer]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Climbing Hammer.png?width=200 "[[Rock climbing hammer]]")
![[[Rubber mallet]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gummihammer.png?width=200 "[[Rubber mallet]]")
![[[Sledgehammer]]s](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sledgehammers-1.jpg?width=200 "[[Sledgehammer]]s")
![Straight pane [[sledgehammer]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hammer straight pane sledge.jpg?width=200 "Straight pane [[sledgehammer]]")
![[[Upholstery hammer]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hammer tapissier.jpg?width=200 "[[Upholstery hammer]]")
![Wooden [[mallet]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mallet menuisier.jpg?width=200 "Wooden [[mallet]]")
TOOL MEANT TO DELIVER AN IMPACT TO AN OBJECT
Hammers; Point-peen hammer; Chisel-peen hammer; Point peen hammer; Chisel peen hammer; Hammering; Birmingham screwdriver; Cross-peen hammer; Irish screwdriver; 🔨; Roofing hammer
(hammers, hammering, hammered)
1.
A hammer is a tool that consists of a heavy piece of metal at the end of a handle. It is used, for example, to hit nails into a piece of wood or a wall, or to break things into pieces.
He used a hammer and chisel to chip away at the wall.
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2.
If you hammer an object such as a nail, you hit it with a hammer.
To avoid damaging the tree, hammer a wooden peg into the hole...
Builders were still hammering outside the window.
VERB: V n prep/adv, V, also V n
•
The workers kneel on the ground and hammer the small stones in.
PHRASAL VERB: V n P, also V P n (not pron)
• hammering
The noise of hammering was dulled by the secondary glazing.
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3.
If you hammer on a surface, you hit it several times in order to make a noise, or to emphasize something you are saying when you are angry.
We had to hammer and shout before they would open up...
A crowd of reporters was hammering on the door...
He hammered his two clenched fists on the table.
= pound
VERB: V, V on n, V n on n
• hammering
As he said it, there was a hammering outside.
N-SING
4.
If you hammer something such as an idea into people or you hammer at it, you keep repeating it forcefully so that it will have an effect on people.
He hammered it into me that I had not suddenly become a rotten goalkeeper...
Recent advertising campaigns from the industry have hammered at these themes.
VERB: V n into n, V at n
5.
If you say that someone hammers another person, you mean that they attack, criticize, or punish the other person severely. (mainly BRIT)
The report hammers the private motorist...
VERB: V n
• hammering
Parents have taken a terrible hammering.
N-SING
6.
If you say that businesses are being hammered, you mean that they are being unfairly harmed, for example by a change in taxes or by bad economic conditions. (BRIT)
The company has been hammered by the downturn in the construction and motor industries.
V-PASSIVE: be V-ed
7.
In sports, if you say that one player or team hammered another, you mean that the first player or team defeated the second completely and easily. (BRIT JOURNALISM)
He hammered the young Austrian player in four straight sets.
= thrash
VERB: V n
• hammering
Our cricketers are suffering their ritual hammering at the hands of the Aussies.
= thrashing
N-SING
8.
In athletics, a hammer is a heavy weight on a piece of wire, which the athlete throws as far as possible.
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The hammer also refers to the sport of throwing the hammer.
N-SING: the N
9.
If you say that someone was going at something hammer and tongs, you mean that they were doing it with great enthusiasm or energy.
He loved gardening. He went at it hammer and tongs as soon as he got back from work...
PHRASE: PHR after v
10.
If you say that something goes, comes, or is under the hammer, you mean that it is going to be sold at an auction.
Ian Fleming's original unpublished notes are to go under the hammer at London auctioneers Sotheby's.
PHRASE: PHR after v
hammer
TOOL MEANT TO DELIVER AN IMPACT TO AN OBJECT
Hammers; Point-peen hammer; Chisel-peen hammer; Point peen hammer; Chisel peen hammer; Hammering; Birmingham screwdriver; Cross-peen hammer; Irish screwdriver; 🔨; Roofing hammer
Commonwealth hackish synonym for bang on.
[Jargon File ]
(1995-02-16)
Hammer
TOOL MEANT TO DELIVER AN IMPACT TO AN OBJECT
Hammers; Point-peen hammer; Chisel-peen hammer; Point peen hammer; Chisel peen hammer; Hammering; Birmingham screwdriver; Cross-peen hammer; Irish screwdriver; 🔨; Roofing hammer
·noun The Malleus.
II. Hammer ·vt To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.
III. Hammer ·vi To strike repeated blows, literally or figuratively.
IV. Hammer ·noun Something which in firm or action resembles the common hammer.
V. Hammer ·vt To beat with a hammer; to beat with heavy blows; as, to hammer iron.
VI. Hammer ·noun That part of a clock which strikes upon the bell to indicate the hour.
VII. Hammer ·noun The padded mallet of a piano, which strikes the wires, to produce the tones.
VIII. Hammer ·vt To form in the mind; to shape by hard intellectual labor;
- usually with out.
IX. Hammer ·vi To be busy forming anything; to labor hard as if shaping something with a hammer.
X. Hammer ·noun Also, a person of thing that smites or shatters; as, St. Augustine was the hammer of heresies.
XI. Hammer ·noun An instrument for driving nails, beating metals, and the like, consisting of a head, usually of steel or iron, fixed crosswise to a handle.
XII. Hammer ·add. ·noun 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.
XIII. Hammer ·noun 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.
Wikipedia
Hammer (disambiguation)
A hammer is a type of tool.
Hammer or HAMMER may also refer to:
Examples of use of hammer
1. It is named The Hammer for Christian Hammer, a 1'th–century Swedish collector.
2. Hammer stories were also featured on television in the series "Mickey Spillane‘s Mike Hammer" and in made–for–television movies.
3. Hammer time CNN‘s AJ Hammer has arrived –– still in mufti –– and I asked him about his Oscar picks.
4. Hammer stories were also featured on television in the series "Mickey Spillane‘s Mike Hammer" and in made–for–TV movies.
5. "Something‘s moving right there," Hammer said, pointing his rifle.