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Webster 1913 Edition


Hammer

Ham′mer

(hăm′mẽr)
,
Noun.
[OE.
hamer
, AS.
hamer
,
hamor
; akin to D.
hamer
, G. & Dan.
hammer
, Sw.
hammare
, Icel.
hamarr
, hammer, crag, and perh. to Gr.
ἄκμων
anvil, Skr.
açman
stone.]
1.
An instrument for driving nails, beating metals, and the like, consisting of a head, usually of steel or iron, fixed crosswise to a handle.
With busy
hammers
closing rivets up.
Shakespeare
2.
Something which in form or action resembles the common hammer
; as:
(a)
That part of a clock which strikes upon the bell to indicate the hour.
(b)
The padded mallet of a piano, which strikes the wires, to produce the tones.
(c)
(Anat.)
The malleus.
See under
Ear
.
(d)
(Gun.)
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.
(e)
Also, a person or thing that smites or shatters;
as, 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.
J. H. Newman.
Atmospheric hammer
,
a dead-stroke hammer in which the spring is formed by confined air.
Drop hammer
,
Face hammer
, etc.
See under
Drop
,
Face
, etc.
Hammer fish
.
Hammer hardening
,
the process of hardening metal by hammering it when cold.
Hammer shell
(Zool.)
,
any species of
Malleus
, a genus of marine bivalve shells, allied to the pearl oysters, having the wings narrow and elongated, so as to give them a hammer-shaped outline; – called also
hammer oyster
.
To bring to the hammer
,
to put up at auction.

Ham′mer

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Hammered
(-mẽrd)
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Hammering
.]
1.
To beat with a hammer; to beat with heavy blows;
as, to
hammer
iron
.
2.
To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.
Hammered money.”
Dryden.
3.
To form in the mind; to shape by hard intellectual labor; – usually with out.
Who was
hammering
out a penny dialogue.
Jeffry.

Ham′mer

,
Verb.
I.
1.
To be busy forming anything; to labor hard as if shaping something with a hammer.
Whereon this month I have been
hammering
.
Shakespeare
2.
To strike repeated blows, literally or figuratively.
Blood and revenge are
hammering
in my head.
Shakespeare

Webster 1828 Edition


Hammer

HAM'MER

,
Noun.
An instrument for driving nails, beating metals, and the like. It consists of an iron head, fixed crosswise to a handle. Hammers are of various sizes; a large hammer used by smiths is called a sledge.

HAM'MER

,
Verb.
T.
To beat with a hammer; as, to hammer iron or steel.
1.
To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.
2.
To work in the mind; to contrive by intellectual labor; usually with out; as, to hammer out a scheme.

HAM'MER

,
Verb.
I.
To work; to be busy; to labor in contrivance.
1.
To be working or in agitation.

Definition 2024


Hämmer

Hämmer

See also: hammer, Hammer, and hämmer

German

Noun

Hämmer

  1. plural of Hammer

hämmer

hämmer

See also: hammer, Hammer, and Hämmer

German

Verb

hämmer

  1. First-person singular present of hämmern.
  2. Imperative singular of hämmern.