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- English Word Hammer Definition Something which in firm or action resembles the common hammer
- English Word Hammer Definition That part of a clock which strikes upon the bell to indicate the hour.
- English Word Hammer Definition The padded mallet of a piano, which strikes the wires, to produce the tones.
- English Word Hammer Definition The malleus.
- English Word Hammer Definition 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.
- English Word Hammer Definition Also, a person of thing that smites or shatters; as, St. Augustine was the hammer of heresies.
- English Word Hammer Definition To beat with a hammer; to beat with heavy blows; as, to hammer iron.
- English Word Hammer Definition To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.
- English Word Hammer Definition To form in the mind; to shape by hard intellectual labor; -- usually with out.
- English Word Hammer Definition To be busy forming anything; to labor hard as if shaping something with a hammer.
- English Word Hammer Definition To strike repeated blows, literally or figuratively.
- English Word Hammer-beam Definition A member of one description of roof truss, called hammer-beam truss, which is so framed as not to have a tiebeam at the top of the wall. Each principal has two hammer-beams, which occupy the situation, and to some extent serve the purpose, of a tiebeam.
- English Word Hammer-dressed Definition Having the surface roughly shaped or faced with the stonecutter's hammer; -- said of building stone.
- English Word Hammer-harden Definition To harden, as a metal, by hammering it in the cold state.
- English Word Hammer-less Definition Without a visible hammer; -- said of a gun having a cock or striker concealed from sight, and out of the way of an accidental touch.
- English Word Hammerable Definition Capable of being formed or shaped by a hammer.
- English Word Hammercloth Definition The cloth which covers a coach box.
- English Word Hammered Definition of Hammer
- English Word Hammerer Definition One who works with a hammer.
- English Word Hammerhead Definition A shark of the genus Sphyrna or Zygaena, having the eyes set on projections from the sides of the head, which gives it a hammer shape. The Sphyrna zygaena is found in the North Atlantic. Called also hammer fish, and balance fish.