Meaning

A tool with a heavy head and a handle used for pounding..

Definitions by Sense

1. A tool with a heavy head and a handle used for pounding.
2. The act of using a hammer to hit something.
3. (anatomy) The malleus, a small bone of the middle ear.
4. (music) In a piano or dulcimer, a piece of wood covered in felt that strikes the string.
5. (sports) A device made of a heavy steel ball attached to a length of wire, and used for throwing.
6. (curling) The last stone in an end.
7. (frisbee) A frisbee throw in which the disc is held upside-down with a forehand grip and thrown forwards above the head.
8. Part of a clock that strikes upon a bell to indicate the hour.

Example Sentences

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

Men shove statues off pedestals, and use hammers and drills to destroy what’s left.

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."

Word Forms

• hammers
• hammering
• hammered

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