Definition of hammer

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

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Fuller :: Fuller (v. t.) To form a groove or channel in, by a fuller or set hammer; as, to fuller a bayonet..
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..
Hammer :: Hammer (n.) The padded mallet of a piano, which strikes the wires, to produce the tones..
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..
Clinkstone :: Clinkstone (n.) An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite..
Ped :: Ped (n.) A basket; a hammer; a pannier.
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..
Nigged :: nigged (n.) Hammer-dressed; -- said of building stone.
Martel :: Martel (v. i.) To make a blow with, or as with, a hammer..
Yowley :: Yowley (n.) The European yellow-hammer.
Hammering :: Hammering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hamme.
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..
Hammerable :: Hammerable (a.) Capable of being formed or shaped by a hammer.
Bruise :: Bruise (v. t.) To injure, as by a blow or collision, without laceration; to contuse; as, to bruise one's finger with a hammer; to bruise the bark of a tree with a stone; to bruise an apple by letting it fall..
Hammer :: Hammer (v. t.) To form in the mind; to shape by hard intellectual labor; -- usually with out.
Flicker :: Flicker (n.) The golden-winged woodpecker (Colaptes aurutus); -- so called from its spring note. Called also yellow-hammer, high-holder, pigeon woodpecker, and yucca..
Tilt-mill :: Tilt-mill (n.) A mill where a tilt hammer is used, or where the process of tilting is carried on..
Shape :: Shape (n.) A rolled or hammered piece, as a bar, beam, angle iron, etc., having a cross section different from merchant bar..
Hammer-beam :: Hammer-beam (n.) A member of one description of roof truss, called hammer-beam truss, which is so framed as not to have a tiebeam at the top of the wall. Each principal has two hammer-beams, which occupy the situation, and to some extent serve the purpose, of a tiebeam..
Malleus :: Malleus (n.) A genus of bivalve shells; the hammer shell.
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