| Definitions of 'hammer' |
Wordnet |
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1. (noun) hammer, cock
the part of a gunlock that strikes the percussion cap when the trigger is pulled
2. (noun) hammer
a hand tool with a heavy rigid head and a handle; used to deliver an impulsive force by striking
3. (noun) malleus, hammer
the ossicle attached to the eardrum
4. (noun) mallet, hammer
a light drumstick with a rounded head that is used to strike such percussion instruments as chimes, kettledrums, marimbas, glockenspiels, etc.
5. (noun) hammer
a heavy metal sphere attached to a flexible wire; used in the hammer throw
6. (noun) hammer
a striker that is covered in felt and that causes the piano strings to vibrate
7. (noun) hammer, power hammer
a power tool for drilling rocks
8. (verb) hammer, pound, hammering, pounding
the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows)
"the sudden hammer of fists caught him off guard"; "the pounding of feet on the hallway"
9. (verb) hammer
beat with or as if with a hammer
"hammer the metal flat"
10. (verb) forge, hammer
create by hammering
"hammer the silver into a bowl"; "forge a pair of tongues"
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| Definitions of 'hammer' |
Webster 1913 Dictionary |
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1. (noun) hammer
an instrument for driving nails, beating metals, and the like, consisting of a head, usually of steel or iron, fixed crosswise to a handle
2. (noun) hammer
something which in firm or action resembles the common hammer
3. (noun) hammer
that part of a clock which strikes upon the bell to indicate the hour
4. (noun) hammer
the padded mallet of a piano, which strikes the wires, to produce the tones
5. (noun) hammer
the malleus
6. (noun) hammer
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
7. (noun) hammer
also, a person of thing that smites or shatters; as, St. Augustine was the hammer of heresies
8. (verb) hammer
to beat with a hammer; to beat with heavy blows; as, to hammer iron
9. (verb) hammer
to form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating
10. (verb) hammer
to form in the mind; to shape by hard intellectual labor; -- usually with out
11. (verb) hammer
to be busy forming anything; to labor hard as if shaping something with a hammer
12. (verb) hammer
to strike repeated blows, literally or figuratively
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| Definitions of 'hammer' |
The New Hacker's Dictionary |
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1. hammer
Commonwealth hackish syn. for bang on.
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