Definition of hammer

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Hammer (v. t.) To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.

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Batter :: Batter (v. t.) To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly..
Hewn :: Hewn (a.) Roughly dressed as with a hammer; as, hewn stone..
Yellowammer :: Yellowammer (n.) See Yellow-hammer.
Monkey :: Monkey (n.) The weight or hammer of a pile driver, that is, a very heavy mass of iron, which, being raised on high, falls on the head of the pile, and drives it into the earth; the falling weight of a drop hammer used in forging..
Hammer :: Hammer (v. t.) To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.
Goldfinch :: Goldfinch (n.) The yellow-hammer.
Thump :: Thump (n.) The sound made by the sudden fall or blow of a heavy body, as of a hammer, or the like..
Clock :: Clock (n.) A machine for measuring time, indicating the hour and other divisions by means of hands moving on a dial plate. Its works are moved by a weight or a spring, and it is often so constructed as to tell the hour by the stroke of a hammer on a bell. It is not adapted, like the watch, to be carried on the person..
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..
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..
Hammer :: Hammer (n.) The padded mallet of a piano, which strikes the wires, to produce the tones..
Peen :: Peen (n.) The sharp-edged end of the head of a mason's hammer.
About-sledge :: About-sledge (n.) The largest hammer used by smiths.
Hammerhead :: Hammerhead (n.) A shark of the genus Sphyrna or Zygaena, having the eyes set on projections from the sides of the head, which gives it a hammer shape. The Sphyrna zygaena is found in the North Atlantic. Called also hammer fish, and balance fish..
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..
Bushhammer :: Bushhammer (v. t.) To dress with bushhammer; as, to bushhammer a block of granite..
Upset :: Upset (v. t.) To thicken and shorten, as a heated piece of iron, by hammering on the end..
Sledge :: Sledge (v. t.) A large, heavy hammer, usually wielded with both hands; -- called also sledge hammer..
Indent :: Indent (v. t.) To dent; to stamp or to press in; to impress; as, indent a smooth surface with a hammer; to indent wax with a stamp..
Shingling :: Shingling (n.) The process of expelling scoriae and other impurities by hammering and squeezing, in the production of wrought iron..
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