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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Kevel :: Kevel (n.) A stone mason's hammer.
Cock :: Cock (v. i.) To draw back the hammer of a firearm, and set it for firing..
Hammer :: Hammer (n.) The padded mallet of a piano, which strikes the wires, to produce the tones..
Hammered :: Hammered (imp. & p. p.) of Hamme.
Anvil :: Anvil (v. t.) To form or shape on an anvil; to hammer out; as, anviled armor..
Yowley :: Yowley (n.) The European yellow-hammer.
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..
Gold-hammer :: Gold-hammer (n.) The yellow-hammer.
Shaft :: Shaft (n.) The handle or helve of certain tools, instruments, etc., as a hammer, a whip, etc..
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..
Shape :: Shape (n.) A rolled or hammered piece, as a bar, beam, angle iron, etc., having a cross section different from merchant bar..
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..
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..
Hurt :: Hurt (n.) A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions..
Hammerable :: Hammerable (a.) Capable of being formed or shaped by a hammer.
Knocker :: Knocker (n.) One who, or that which, knocks; specifically, an instrument, or kind of hammer, fastened to a door, to be used in seeking for admittance..
Hewn :: Hewn (a.) Roughly dressed as with a hammer; as, hewn stone..
Tilter :: Tilter (n.) One who operates a tilt hammer.
Use :: Use (v. t.) A stab of iron welded to the side of a forging, as a shaft, near the end, and afterward drawn down, by hammering, so as to lengthen the forging..
Tilt :: Tilt (v. t.) To hammer or forge with a tilt hammer; as, to tilt steel in order to render it more ductile..
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