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Hammer

Definition: An instrument for driving nails, beating metals, and the
like, consisting of a head, usually of steel or iron, fixed crosswise
to a handle.

Hammer

Definition: Something which in firm or action resembles the common
hammer

Hammer

Definition: That part of a clock which strikes upon the bell to
indicate the hour.

Hammer

Definition: The padded mallet of a piano, which strikes the wires, to
produce the tones.

Hammer

Definition: The malleus.

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.

Hammer

Definition: Also, a person of thing that smites or shatters; as, St.
Augustine was the hammer of heresies.

Hammer

Definition: To beat with a hammer; to beat with heavy blows; as, to
hammer iron.

Hammer

Definition: To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.

Hammer

Definition: To form in the mind; to shape by hard intellectual
labor; -- usually with out.

Hammer

Definition: To be busy forming anything; to labor hard as if shaping
something with a hammer.

Hammer

Definition: To strike repeated blows, literally or figuratively.