Definition of hammer

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Hammer (n.) That part of a clock which strikes upon the bell to indicate the hour.

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Disintegrate :: Disintegrate (v. t.) To separate into integrant parts; to reduce to fragments or to powder; to break up, or cause to fall to pieces, as a rock, by blows of a hammer, frost, rain, and other mechanical or atmospheric influences..
Pane :: Pane (n.) The narrow edge of a hammer head. See Peen.
Clinkstone :: Clinkstone (n.) An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite..
Oliver :: Oliver (n.) A small tilt hammer, worked by the foot..
Extend :: Extend (v. t.) To enlarge, as a surface or volume; to expand; to spread; to amplify; as, to extend metal plates by hammering or rolling them..
Cock :: Cock (v. t.) To draw the hammer of (a firearm) fully back and set it for firing.
Marteline :: Marteline (n.) A small hammer used by marble workers and sculptors.
Yeldrine :: Yeldrine (n.) The yellow-hammer; -- called also yeldrock, and yoldrin..
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..
Ninnyhammer :: Ninnyhammer (n.) A simpleton; a silly person.
Peen :: Peen (v. t.) To draw, bend, or straighten, as metal, by blows with the peen of a hammer or sledge..
Hammerable :: Hammerable (a.) Capable of being formed or shaped by a hammer.
Forging :: Forging (n.) A piece of forged work in metal; -- a general name for a piece of hammered iron or steel.
Poll :: Poll (n.) The broad end of a hammer; the but of an ax.
Drop :: Drop (n.) A drop press or drop hammer.
Pianoforte :: Pianoforte (a.) A well-known musical instrument somewhat resembling the harpsichord, and consisting of a series of wires of graduated length, thickness, and tension, struck by hammers moved by keys..
Tumbler :: Tumbler (n.) A piece attached to, or forming part of, the hammer of a gunlock, upon which the mainspring acts and in which are the notches for sear point to enter..
Batter :: Batter (v. t.) To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly..
Hammer :: Hammer (n.) That part of a clock which strikes upon the bell to indicate the hour.
Refractory :: Refractory (a.) Resisting ordinary treatment; difficult of fusion, reduction, or the like; -- said especially of metals and the like, which do not readily yield to heat, or to the hammer; as, a refractory ore..
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