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   Ham·mer

   /ˈhamər/

   

   noun

   • 1. a tool with a heavy metal head mounted at right angles at the end of a handle, used for jobs such as breaking things and driving in nails.
   • ▪ a machine with a metal block for giving a heavy blow to something.
   • ▪ an auctioneer's mallet for indicating by a sharp tap that an article is sold.
   • ▪ a part of a mechanism that hits another part to make it work, such as one exploding the charge in a gun or one striking the strings of a piano.
   • 2. a metal ball, typically weighing 16 pounds (7.3 kg), attached to a wire for throwing in an athletic contest.
   • ▪ the sport of throwing a metal ball attached to a wire.
   • 3. another term for malleus

   verb

   • 1. hit or beat (something) with a hammer or similar object: "they are made by heating and hammering pieces of iron" Similar beatforgeshapeformmoldfashionmake
   • ▪ strike or knock at or on something violently with one's hand or with a hammer or other object: "she hammered on his door" Similar batterpummelbeatbangpoundstrikehitknock onthump oncudgelbludgeonclubpeltassailthwackinformal:bashwallopclobberwhack
   • ▪ strike (a ball, puck, etc.) very hard: "she hammered the ball into the top corner" Similar batterpummelbeatbangpoundstrikehitknock onthump oncudgelbludgeonclubpeltassailthwackinformal:bashwallopclobberwhack
   • 2. attack or criticize forcefully and relentlessly: informal "he got hammered for an honest mistake" Similar criticizecensureattackcondemncastigatechastiselambastepilloryreprimandrebukeadmonishremonstrate withtake to taskhaul over the coalsberatereproachreproveinformal:knockslamlay intoroastcaneblastbawl outdress downcarpetslateslag offmonsterrollickchew outream outpummelcut upbagrare:excoriateobjurgatereprehendOpposite praise
   • ▪ utterly defeat in a game or contest: "they hammered St. Louis 6–0" Similar trouncedefeatbeatbeat hollowworstbestoverwhelmroutannihilatebring someone to their kneesinformal:thrashclobberlickdemolishslaughtermurderpastepounddrubgive someone a drubbingwipe the floor withtake to the cleanersrun rings aroundwalk all overmake mincemeat ofturn something inside outstuffmarmalizeshellaccreamskunkblow outownOpposite lose to

   Word Origin Old Englishhamor, hamer, of Germanic origin: related to Dutch hamer, German Hammer, and Old Norse hamarr ‘rock’. The original sense was probably ‘stone tool’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. hammerless adjective
   • 2. hammerer noun

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   • Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Hammer definition: a tool consisting of a solid head, usually of metal, set crosswise on a handle, used for beating metals, driving nails, etc..

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   • A bowl of hammered brass. Shaped or marked by hammer blows. Drunk; intoxicated. Simple past tense and past participle of hammer. These he hammered and shaped and fitted to the horse's feet. In the Ligore ware the hammered ground-work is inlaid with a black composition of sulphides of baser metals which throws up the pattern with distinctness.

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   • In athletics, a hammer is a heavy weight on a piece of wire, which the athlete throws as far as possible. The hammer also refers to the sport of throwing the hammer. Events like the hammer and the discus are not traditional crowd-pullers in the West. The hammer is the largest bone of the three small bones in the ear of mammals.

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   a tool consisting of a solid head, usually of metal, set crosswise on a handle, used for beating metals, driving nails, etc. any of various instruments or devices resembling this in form, action, or use, as a gavel, a mallet for playing the xylophone, or a lever that strikes the bell in a doorbell. Firearms. the part of a lock that by its fall ...

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   a tool consisting of a piece of metal with a flat end that is fixed onto the end of a long, thin, usually wooden handle, used for hitting things. Jonathan Kitchen/DigitalVision/GettyImages. Examples. She hit her thumb with the hammer. She took a hammer and knocked a hole in the wall. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases.

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   to assemble or build with a hammer and nails (often followed by together): He hammered together a small crate. to shape or ornament (metal or a metal object) by controlled and repeated blows of a hammer; beat out: to hammer brass; to hammer a brass bowl.

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