Hammer
Meaning of Hammer
noun
- A tool with a heavy head and a handle used for pounding.
Bobby used a hammer and nails to fix the two planks together
- The act of using a hammer to hit something}}
The nail is too loose - give it a hammer.
- A moving part of a firearm that strikes the firing pin to discharge a gun.
- The malleus, a small bone of the middle ear.
- In a piano or dulcimer, a piece of wood covered in felt that strikes the string.
The sound the piano makes comes from the hammers striking the strings
- A device made of a heavy steel ball attached to a length of wire, and used for throwing.
- The last stone in an end.
- (frisbee) A frisbee throwing style in which the disc is held upside-down with a forehand grip and thrown above the head.
- Part of a clock that strikes upon a bell to indicate the hour.
- One who, or that which, smites or shatters.
St. Augustine was the hammer of heresies.
- To strike repeatedly with a hammer, some other implement, the fist, etc.
Tony hammered on the door to try to get him to open.
- To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.
- To emphasize a point repeatedly.
- To hit particularly hard.
- To ride very fast.
- To strike internally, as if hit by a hammer.
I could hear the engine’s valves hammering once the timing rod was thrown.
- To defeat (a person, a team) resoundingly
We hammered them 5-0!
- To make high demands on (a system or service).
- To declare (a person) a defaulter on the stock exchange.
- To beat down the price of (a stock), or depress (a market).
- To have hard sex with
Daniel hammered Mary til he came.
Information about Hammer
Hyphenation of Hammer
Ham-mer
- It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
- Hammer is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
Hammer synonyms
Meaning cock:
Meaning malleus:
Meaning pound:
Meaning forge:
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