Definition of hammer

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Hammer (v. i.) To be busy forming anything; to labor hard as if shaping something with a hammer.

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Kevel :: Kevel (n.) A stone mason's hammer.
Yite :: Yite (n.) The European yellow-hammer.
Ninnyhammer :: Ninnyhammer (n.) A simpleton; a silly person.
Gladeye :: Gladeye (n.) The European yellow-hammer.
Fuller :: Fuller (a.) A die; a half-round set hammer, used for forming grooves and spreading iron; -- called also a creaser..
Woolstock :: Woolstock (n.) A heavy wooden hammer for milling cloth.
Hammer :: Hammer (n.) The malleus.
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..
Improvise :: Improvise (v. t.) To invent, or provide, offhand, or on the spur of the moment; as, he improvised a hammer out of a stone..
Hammermen :: Hammermen (pl. ) of Hammerma.
Hammer :: Hammer (v. t.) To beat with a hammer; to beat with heavy blows; as, to hammer iron..
Harpsichord :: Harpsichord (n.) A harp-shaped instrument of music set horizontally on legs, like the grand piano, with strings of wire, played by the fingers, by means of keys provided with quills, instead of hammers, for striking the strings. It is now superseded by the piano..
Marteline :: Marteline (n.) A small hammer used by marble workers and sculptors.
Sear :: Sear (n.) The catch in a gunlock by which the hammer is held cocked or half cocked.
Flint :: Flint (n.) A piece of flint for striking fire; -- formerly much used, esp. in the hammers of gun locks..
Trip Hammer :: Trip hammer () A tilt hammer.
Tilter :: Tilter (n.) One who operates a tilt hammer.
Sinter :: Sinter (n.) Dross, as of iron; the scale which files from iron when hammered; -- applied as a name to various minerals..
Water Hammer :: Water hammer () A concussion, or blow, made by water in striking, as against the sides of a pipe or vessel containing it..
Tilt :: Tilt (n.) See Tilt hammer, in the Vocabulary..
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