hammer
Noun:
- A hand tool with a heavy rigid head and a handle: A tool used to deliver a forceful blow, typically for driving nails, breaking objects, or shaping metal.
- A part of a mechanism that strikes something: The part of a device (like a gun or piano) that hits another part to cause an action, such as firing a bullet or vibrating a string.
- A heavy metal ball on a wire: A sphere attached to a wire, used in the athletic event of throwing it for distance (the hammer throw).
- The act of pounding: The action of delivering repeated heavy blows.
Verb:
- To hit or beat with or as if with a hammer: To strike something repeatedly with force.
- To shape or create by forceful blows: To form metal or another material by pounding it.
- To emphasize persistently: To stress a point or idea repeatedly and forcefully.
Noun:
- He used a hammer to drive the nail into the wall.
- The hammer of the gun fell with a click.
- She won a gold medal in the hammer throw.
Verb:
- He had to hammer the bent metal back into shape.
- The blacksmith will hammer the red-hot iron on the anvil.
- The teacher tried to hammer the importance of grammar into the students' minds.
"to hammer away at": To work persistently or attack something with repeated effort.
- She hammered away at the problem until she found a solution.
- The prosecutor hammered away at the witness's testimony.
"to hammer out": To produce or negotiate something, especially an agreement, through persistent effort.
- The two countries finally hammered out a trade deal after months of talks.
"to hammer home": To emphasize a point very forcefully to ensure it is understood.
- The coach hammered home the need for better defense.
Hammering (n): The action or sound of striking with a hammer.
- The constant hammering from the construction site was very loud.
Hammered (adj): Shaped or made by hammering; (informal) very drunk.
- The bracelet was made of hammered silver.
- Noun: Mallet, gavel, sledgehammer.
- Verb: Pound, beat, pummel, forge.
Hammer at: To strike repeatedly; to work hard on.
- He hammered at the door until someone answered.
Hammer into: To force someone to learn or accept something through repetition.
- They tried to hammer the rules into the new recruits.
"Between a rock and a hard place / Between the hammer and the anvil": In a difficult situation where one is faced with two equally unpleasant alternatives.
- Caught between the demands of two bosses, he felt like he was between the hammer and the anvil.
"Go at it hammer and tongs": To do something with great vigor, energy, or violence.
- The two boxers went at it hammer and tongs from the first bell.
"Up to the hammer": (Informal, dated) Of excellent quality; first-rate.
- The craftsmanship on this furniture is up to the hammer.
- the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows)
- the sudden hammer of fists caught him off guard
- the pounding of feet on the hallway
- a power tool for drilling rocks
- a striker that is covered in felt and that causes the piano strings to vibrate
- a heavy metal sphere attached to a flexible wire; used in the hammer throw
- a light drumstick with a rounded head that is used to strike such percussion instruments as chimes, kettledrums, marimbas, glockenspiels, etc.
- the ossicle attached to the eardrum
- a hand tool with a heavy rigid head and a handle; used to deliver an impulsive force by striking
- the part of a gunlock that strikes the percussion cap when the trigger is pulled
- create by hammering
- hammer the silver into a bowl
- forge a pair of tongues
- beat with or as if with a hammer
- hammer the metal flat