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Hammerhead :: Hammerhead (n.) A shark of the genus Sphyrna or Zygaena, having the eyes set on projections from the sides of the head, which gives it a hammer shape. The Sphyrna zygaena is found in the North Atlantic. Called also hammer fish, and balance fish..

Hammer :: Hammer (v. t.) To form in the mind; to shape by hard intellectual labor; -- usually with out.

Claw :: Claw (n.) Anything resembling the claw of an animal, as the curved and forked end of a hammer for drawing nails..

Drop :: Drop (n.) A drop press or drop hammer.

Yellowhammer :: Yellowhammer (n.) The flicker.

Flintlock :: Flintlock (n.) A lock for a gun or pistol, having a flint fixed in the hammer, which on striking the steel ignites the priming..

Helve :: Helve (n.) A forge hammer which is lifted by a cam acting on the helve between the fulcrum and the head.

Batter :: Batter (v. t.) To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly..

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

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..

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

Woolstock :: Woolstock (n.) A heavy wooden hammer for milling cloth.

Hammer :: Hammer (v. i.) To be busy forming anything; to labor hard as if shaping something with a hammer.

Scaling :: Scaling (a.) Adapted for removing scales, as from a fish; as, a scaling knife; adapted for removing scale, as from the interior of a steam boiler; as, a scaling hammer, bar, etc..

Improvise :: Improvise (v. t.) To invent, or provide, offhand, or on the spur of the moment; as, he improvised a hammer out of a stone..

Malleus :: Malleus (n.) The outermost of the three small auditory bones, ossicles; the hammer. It is attached to the tympanic membrane by a long process, the handle or manubrium. See Illust. of Far..

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

Martel :: Martel (v. i.) To make a blow with, or as with, a hammer..

Shammer :: Shammer (n.) One who shams; an impostor.

Bucker :: Bucker (n.) A broad-headed hammer used in bucking ore.

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