Definition of hammer

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Hammer (v. t.) To beat with a hammer; to beat with heavy blows; as, to hammer iron..

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Forge :: Forge (n.) A place or establishment where iron or other metals are wrought by heating and hammering; especially, a furnace, or a shop with its furnace, etc., where iron is heated and wrought; a smithy..
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..
Fagot :: Fagot (n.) A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering at a welding heat; a pile.
Trip Hammer :: Trip hammer () A tilt hammer.
Tilt :: Tilt (n.) See Tilt hammer, in the Vocabulary..
Mainspring :: Mainspring (n.) The principal or most important spring in a piece of mechanism, especially the moving spring of a watch or clock or the spring in a gunlock which impels the hammer. Hence: The chief or most powerful motive; the efficient cause of action..
Bushhammer :: Bushhammer (n.) A hammer with a head formed of a bundle of square bars, with pyramidal points, arranged in rows, or a solid head with a face cut into a number of rows of such points; -- used for dressing stone..
Hammer :: Hammer (v. i.) To strike repeated blows, literally or figuratively..
Bushhammer :: Bushhammer (v. t.) To dress with bushhammer; as, to bushhammer a block of granite..
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..
Drop :: Drop (n.) A drop press or drop hammer.
Batter :: Batter (v. t.) To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly..
Shaft :: Shaft (n.) The handle or helve of certain tools, instruments, etc., as a hammer, a whip, etc..
Forge :: Forge (n.) To form by heating and hammering; to beat into any particular shape, as a metal..
Hammerkop :: Hammerkop (n.) A bird of the Heron family; the umber.
Sear :: Sear (n.) The catch in a gunlock by which the hammer is held cocked or half cocked.
Hammercloth :: Hammercloth (n.) The cloth which covers a coach box.
Hammer :: Hammer (n.) The padded mallet of a piano, which strikes the wires, to produce the tones..
Sinter :: Sinter (n.) Dross, as of iron; the scale which files from iron when hammered; -- applied as a name to various minerals..
Claw :: Claw (n.) Anything resembling the claw of an animal, as the curved and forked end of a hammer for drawing nails..
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