Meaning of hammer | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A tool with a heavy head and a handle used for pounding.
2. someone connected with West Ham Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.
3. A surname.
4. hammer (a tool with a heavy head and a handle used for pounding)
5. The act of using a hammer to hit something.
6. malleus
7. The malleus, a small bone of the middle ear.
8. auction house
9. In a piano or dulcimer, a piece of wood covered in felt that strikes the string.
10. A device made of a heavy steel ball attached to a length of wire, and used for throwing.
11. first-person singular present indicative of martillar
12. The last stone in an end.
13. A frisbee throw in which the disc is held upside-down with a forehand grip and thrown forwards above the head.
14. Part of a clock that strikes upon a bell to indicate the hour.
15. One who, or that which, smites or shatters.
16. Ellipsis of hammer headline.
    abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
17. The accelerator pedal.
18. A moving part of a firearm that strikes the firing pin to discharge a gun.
19. A handgun.
    broadly, slang

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Examples

“Bobby used a hammer and nails to fix the two planks together”

“The nail is too loose—give it a hammer.”

“The sound the piano makes comes from the hammers striking the strings”

“St. Augustine was the hammer of heresies.”

“He met the stern legionaries [of Rome] who had been the massive iron hammers of the whole earth.”

“Hammers are, in essence, reverse kickers. Instead of being set in smaller type like kickers, hammers are set in larger type than headlines.”

“We is headin' for bear on I-one-oh 'Bout a mile outta Shaky Town. I says, "Pig Pen, this here's the Rubber Duck And I'm about to put the hammer down."”

“But the Englishman was close to him—so close that his hand reached the leveled barrel a fraction of a second before the hammer fell upon the cartridge, and the bullet that was intended for Tarzan’s heart whirred harmlessly above his head.”

“Nonstop hammer cock, violent mannered shots land a lot”

“In the course of a single month this year, the following news reports emanated from Florida: A gun enthusiast in Tampa built a 55-foot backyard pool shaped like a revolver, with a hot tub in the hammer.”

“Another one of my peoples came to me with a plan. "Yo, man, I need to get some money. I need to borrow that hammer." So I gave him my nickel-plated .357 with a wooden handle, and off he went to stand by the weed spot.”

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