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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Hammer :: Hammer (n.) The malleus.
Malleate :: Malleate (v. t.) To hammer; to beat into a plate or leaf.
Batter :: Batter (v. t.) To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly..
Strike :: Strike (v. i.) To hit; to collide; to dush; to clash; as, a hammer strikes against the bell of a clock..
Hurt :: Hurt (n.) A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions..
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..
Hammer :: Hammer (v. t.) To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.
Forgeman :: Forgeman (n.) A skilled smith, who has a hammerer to assist him..
Forge :: Forge (n.) To form by heating and hammering; to beat into any particular shape, as a metal..
Hewn :: Hewn (a.) Roughly dressed as with a hammer; as, hewn stone..
Yellowhammer :: Yellowhammer (n.) A common European finch (Emberiza citrinella). The color of the male is bright yellow on the breast, neck, and sides of the head, with the back yellow and brown, and the top of the head and the tail quills blackish. Called also yellow bunting, scribbling lark, and writing lark..
Successive :: Successive (a.) Following in order or in uninterrupted course; coming after without interruption or interval; following one after another in a line or series; consecutive; as, the successive revolution of years; the successive kings of Egypt; successive strokes of a hammer..
Spall :: Spall (n.) A chip or fragment, especially a chip of stone as struck off the block by the hammer, having at least one feather-edge..
Beetle :: Beetle (v. t.) A machine in which fabrics are subjected to a hammering process while passing over rollers, as in cotton mills; -- called also beetling machine..
Tilt :: Tilt (n.) See Tilt hammer, in the Vocabulary..
About-sledge :: About-sledge (n.) The largest hammer used by smiths.
Bushhammer :: Bushhammer (v. t.) To dress with bushhammer; as, to bushhammer a block of granite..
Yeorling :: Yeorling (n.) The European yellow-hammer.
Xylophone :: Xylophone (n.) An instrument common among the Russians, Poles, and Tartars, consisting of a series of strips of wood or glass graduated in length to the musical scale, resting on belts of straw, and struck with two small hammers. Called in Germany strohfiedel, or straw fiddle..
Trip Hammer :: Trip hammer () A tilt hammer.
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