Definition of hammer

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

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Helve :: Helve (n.) A forge hammer which is lifted by a cam acting on the helve between the fulcrum and the head.
Stonebuck :: Stonebrearer (n.) A machine for crushing or hammering stone.
Upset :: Upset (v. t.) To thicken and shorten, as a heated piece of iron, by hammering on the end..
Sheep''s-foot :: Sheep's-foot (n.) A printer's tool consisting of a metal bar formed into a hammer head at one end and a claw at the other, -- used as a lever and hammer..
Martel De Fer :: Martel de fer () A weapon resembling a hammer, often having one side of the head pointed; -- used by horsemen in the Middle Ages to break armor..
Forge :: Forge (n.) A place or establishment where iron or other metals are wrought by heating and hammering; especially, a furnace, or a shop with its furnace, etc., where iron is heated and wrought; a smithy..
Hammer :: Hammer (n.) That part of a clock which strikes upon the bell to indicate the hour.
Cock :: Cock (n.) The hammer in the lock of a firearm.
Hammerman :: Hammerman (n.) A hammerer; a forgeman.
Malleus :: Malleus (n.) A genus of bivalve shells; the hammer shell.
Bushhammer :: Bushhammer (n.) A hammer with a head formed of a bundle of square bars, with pyramidal points, arranged in rows, or a solid head with a face cut into a number of rows of such points; -- used for dressing stone..
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..
Strike :: Strike (v. i.) To hit; to collide; to dush; to clash; as, a hammer strikes against the bell of a clock..
Tilt Hammer :: Tilt hammer () A tilted hammer; a heavy hammer, used in iron works, which is lifted or tilted by projections or wipers on a revolving shaft; a trip hammer..
Forge :: Forge (n.) To form by heating and hammering; to beat into any particular shape, as a metal..
Set :: Set (n.) A piece placed temporarily upon the head of a pile when the latter cannot be reached by the weight, or hammer, except by means of such an intervening piece..
Gold-hammer :: Gold-hammer (n.) The yellow-hammer.
Bushhammer :: Bushhammer (v. t.) To dress with bushhammer; as, to bushhammer a block of granite..
Peen :: Peen (n.) The sharp-edged end of the head of a mason's hammer.
Tool :: Tool (n.) An instrument such as a hammer, saw, plane, file, and the like, used in the manual arts, to facilitate mechanical operations; any instrument used by a craftsman or laborer at his work; an implement; as, the tools of a joiner, smith, shoe-maker, etc.; also, a cutter, chisel, or other part of an instrument or machine that dresses work..
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