Hammer

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English

File:Framing hammer.jpg
A hammer (tool).

Noun

Hammer (plural Hammers)
  1. A tool with a heavy head and a handle used for pounding.
  2. A moving part of a firearm that strikes the firing pin to discharge a gun.
  3. (anatomy) The malleus.
  4. (music) In a piano or dulcimer, a piece of wood covered in felt that strikes the string.
  5. (sports) A device made of a heavy steel ball attached to a length of wire, and used for throwing.
  6. (curling) The last rock in an end.
  7. (Ultimate Frisbee) A frisbee throwing style in which the disc is held upside-down with a forehand grip and thrown above the head.

Derived terms

terms derived from hammer (noun)

Verb

Hammer (third-person singular simple present Hammers, present participle Hammering, simple past and past participle Hammered)

  1. To strike repeatedly with a hammer, some other implement, the fist, etc.
  2. (figuratively) To emphasize a point repeatedly.
  3. (sports) To hit particularly hard.
    • 2010 Marc Vesty Stoke 0 - 2 Fulham
    This time the defender was teed up by Andrew Johnson's short free-kick on the edge of the box and Baird hammered his low drive beyond Begovic's outstretched left arm and into the bottom corner, doubling his goal tally for the season and stunning the home crowd.
  4. To strike internally, as if hit by a hammer.
    I could hear the engine’s valves hammering once the timing rod was thrown.
  5. (figuratively, sports) To defeat (a person, a team) resoundingly
    We hammered them 5-0!

Derived terms

terms derived from hammer (verb)

See also

Adjectives for Hammer

ponderous; polished; deafening.

Verbs for Hammer

beat with—; clasp—; with—; employ—;labor with—; rap -with—; shape with—; smite with—; strike with—; swing—; tap with—; wield—; —injures; —menaces; — suffices.

Adverbs for Hammer

untiringly; repetitiously; energetically; deafeningly; maddeningly; industriously; monotonously; vigorously; thunderously.

Thesaurus

Eustachian tube, air hammer, anvil, assault, attack, auditory apparatus, auditory canal, auditory meatus, auditory nerve, auditory ossicles, auditory tube, auricle, ball peen hammer, bang, barbarize, basilar membrane, baste, batter, beat, beetle, belabor, bony labyrinth, brutalize, buffet, burn, butcher, carry on, cauliflower ear, chipping hammer, claw hammer, cochlea, conch, concha, destroy, dig, din, ding, drive, drop hammer, drub, drudge, drum, drumhead, ear, ear lobe, eardrum, elaborate, electric hammer, endolymph, external ear, fag, fashion, flail, flap, form, go on, grave, grind, grub, hammer away, incus, inner ear, jackhammer, knock, lambaste, larrup, lay waste, lobe, lobule, loot, lug, mallet, malleus, mastoid process, maul, middle ear, moil, mug, organ of Corti, outer ear, oval window, paste, patter, peg, peg away, pelt, perilymph, pile hammer, pillage, pinna, plod, plug, plug along, plug away, pommel, pound, pound away, pulverize, pummel, rage, raising hammer, ramp, rampage, rant, rap, rape, rave, riot, riveting hammer, roar, round window, rubber mallet, ruin, sack, savage, secondary eardrum, semicircular canals, shape, shell, slaughter, sledge, sledgehammer, slog, sow chaos, spank, stamp, stapes, steam hammer, stirrup, stone hammer, storm, stutter, tack hammer, tear, tear around, terrorize, thrash, thresh, thump, toil, travail, triphammer, tympanic cavity, tympanic membrane, tympanum, vandalize, vestibule, violate, wade through, wallop, whip, work away, wreck

Etymology

Middle English hamer, Old English hamor, from Proto-Germanic *hamaraz (compare Dutch hamer, German Hammer, Swedish hammare), from Proto-Indo-European *ak̑moros (compare Sanskrit aśmará 'stony'), from *h₂ékmōn 'stone' (compare Lithuanian akmuõ, Serbo-Croatian kamēn, Albanian kmesë 'sickle', Ancient Greek ἄκμων (akmōn) 'meteor rock, anvil', Avestan asman, Sanskrit अश्मन् (aśman)), from *h₂ék̑- 'sharp'. More at edge.

Pronunciation

Translations

Noun

tool
part of a firearm
malleus
piano part
frisbee throwing style
curling: last rock in an end

See also

Verb

to strike repeatedly with a hammer, some other implement, the fist, etc
(figuratively) To emphasize a point repeatedly
(sports) To hit particularly hard
to strike internally, as if hit by a hammer
The translations below need to be checked.

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse hamarr, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ek-mon- (“stone”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /hamər/, [ˈhɑmɐ]

Noun

Hammer c. (singular definite Hammeren, plural indefinite Hammere or hamre)

  1. hammer

Inflection

    Inflection of Hammer
common gender Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative, dative and accusative Hammer Hammeren Hammere
hamre 		Hammerne
hamrene
genitive Hammers Hammerens Hammeres
hamres 		Hammernes
hamrenes

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

Hammer m.

  1. hammer

West Frisian

Noun

Hammer

  1. hammer
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