HAMMER
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Ham"mer (hăm"m&etilde_;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. açman 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 (Zo&ö;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.
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Ham"mer, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hammered (-m&etilde_;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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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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