Definition of hammer

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Hammer (n.) Something which in firm or action resembles the common hamme.

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Shovelhead :: Shovelhead (n.) A shark (Sphryna tiburio) allied to the hammerhead, and native of the warmer parts of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans; -- called also bonnet shark..
Water Hammer :: Water hammer () A vessel partly filled with water, exhausted of air, and hermetically sealed. When reversed or shaken, the water being unimpeded by air, strikes the sides in solid mass with a sound like that of a hammer..
Planish :: Planish (v.) To make smooth or plane, as a metallic surface; to condense, toughen, and polish by light blows with a hammer..
Snail :: Snail (n.) A spiral cam, or a flat piece of metal of spirally curved outline, used for giving motion to, or changing the position of, another part, as the hammer tail of a striking clock..
Clinkstone :: Clinkstone (n.) An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite..
Peen :: Peen (n.) The sharp-edged end of the head of a mason's hammer.
Porter :: Porter (n.) A bar of iron or steel at the end of which a forging is made; esp., a long, large bar, to the end of which a heavy forging is attached, and by means of which the forging is lifted and handled in hammering and heating; -- called also porter bar..
Malleate :: Malleate (v. t.) To hammer; to beat into a plate or leaf.
Ped :: Ped (n.) A basket; a hammer; a pannier.
Yellowammer :: Yellowammer (n.) See Yellow-hammer.
Bucker :: Bucker (n.) A broad-headed hammer used in bucking ore.
Drop :: Drop (n.) A drop press or drop hammer.
Tilt :: Tilt (n.) See Tilt hammer, in the Vocabulary..
Forging :: Forging (n.) The act of shaping metal by hammering or pressing.
Gladeye :: Gladeye (n.) The European yellow-hammer.
Poll :: Poll (n.) The broad end of a hammer; the but of an ax.
Sear :: Sear (n.) The catch in a gunlock by which the hammer is held cocked or half cocked.
Fagot :: Fagot (n.) A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering at a welding heat; a pile.
Hammerhead :: Hammerhead (n.) An African fruit bat (Hypsignathus monstrosus); -- so called from its large blunt nozzle.
Forging :: Forging (n.) A piece of forged work in metal; -- a general name for a piece of hammered iron or steel.
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