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Definition of hammer

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Hammer (n.) 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..

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Planish :: Planish (v.) To make smooth or plane, as a metallic surface; to condense, toughen, and polish by light blows with a hammer..

Yeldrine :: Yeldrine (n.) The yellow-hammer; -- called also yeldrock, and yoldrin..

Repousse :: Repousse (a.) Ornamented with patterns in relief made by pressing or hammering on the reverse side; -- said of thin metal, or of a vessel made of thin metal..

Hammer-dressed :: Hammer-dressed (a.) Having the surface roughly shaped or faced with the stonecutter's hammer; -- said of building stone.

Harmonica :: Harmonica (n.) A toy instrument of strips of glass or metal hung on two tapes, and struck with hammers..

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..

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..

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..

Hammer :: Hammer (n.) The malleus.

Forgeman :: Forgeman (n.) A skilled smith, who has a hammerer to assist him..

Maul :: Maul (n.) A heavy wooden hammer or beetle.

Stamp :: Stamp (v. t.) A kind of heavy hammer, or pestle, raised by water or steam power, for beating ores to powder; anything like a pestle, used for pounding or bathing..

Sledge :: Sledge (v. t.) A large, heavy hammer, usually wielded with both hands; -- called also sledge hammer..

Yellowammer :: Yellowammer (n.) See Yellow-hammer.

Puddle-ball :: Puddle-ball (n.) The lump of pasty wrought iron as taken from the puddling furnace to be hammered or rolled.

Ninnyhammer :: Ninnyhammer (n.) A simpleton; a silly person.

Fuller :: Fuller (v. t.) To form a groove or channel in, by a fuller or set hammer; as, to fuller a bayonet..

Cabbling :: Cabbling (n.) The process of breaking up the flat masses into which wrought iron is first hammered, in order that the pieces may be reheated and wrought into bar iron..

Sinter :: Sinter (n.) Dross, as of iron; the scale which files from iron when hammered; -- applied as a name to various minerals..

Plate :: Plate (v. t.) To cover or overlay with gold, silver, or other metals, either by a mechanical process, as hammering, or by a chemical process, as electrotyping..