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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Hammerman :: Hammerman (n.) A hammerer; a forgeman.
Hammered :: Hammered (imp. & p. p.) of Hamme.
Pick :: Pick (n.) A heavy iron tool, curved and sometimes pointed at both ends, wielded by means of a wooden handle inserted in the middle, -- used by quarrymen, roadmakers, etc.; also, a pointed hammer used for dressing millstones..
Spall :: Spall (v. t.) To reduce, as irregular blocks of stone, to an approximately level surface by hammering..
Malleable :: Malleable (a.) Capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers; -- applied to metals..
Drop :: Drop (n.) A drop press or drop hammer.
Yellowhammer :: Yellowhammer (n.) The flicker.
Hammerkop :: Hammerkop (n.) A bird of the Heron family; the umber.
Sinter :: Sinter (n.) Dross, as of iron; the scale which files from iron when hammered; -- applied as a name to various minerals..
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..
Martel :: Martel (v. i.) To make a blow with, or as with, a hammer..
Malleate :: Malleate (v. t.) To hammer; to beat into a plate or leaf.
Shape :: Shape (n.) A rolled or hammered piece, as a bar, beam, angle iron, etc., having a cross section different from merchant bar..
Kevel :: Kevel (n.) A stone mason's hammer.
Helve :: Helve (n.) The lever at the end of which is the hammer head, in a forge hammer..
Hammer :: Hammer (n.) That part of a clock which strikes upon the bell to indicate the hour.
Yowley :: Yowley (n.) The European yellow-hammer.
Comb :: Comb (n.) The thumbpiece of the hammer of a gunlock, by which it may be cocked..
Hammer-dressed :: Hammer-dressed (a.) Having the surface roughly shaped or faced with the stonecutter's hammer; -- said of building stone.
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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