单词 | hammering |
释义 | hammeringn. 1. The action of striking, knocking, or beating out with a hammer; the dealing of hard reiterated blows as with a hammer. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > [noun] > shaping > by or as by hammering hammering1563 anvilling1599 the world > movement > impact > striking > beating or repeated striking > [noun] beating?c1225 quassation?a1425 bunchingc1440 tunsionc1440 hammering1563 pealing1582 flapping1629 pulsation1656 dousing1721 pummelling1755 pommelling1788 dunching1789 walloping1837 whacking1862 shit-kicking1954 beat-down1989 society > occupation and work > industry > working with tools or equipment > [noun] > driving or beating tools braisinga1500 battling1519 maulingc1540 hammering1563 tilting1839 malleting1872 peening1885 1563 W. Fulke Goodle Gallerye Causes Meteors v. f. 67 Copper is moste lyke to siluer in the wayghte, and in the hammeryng. 1612–15 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. O.T. xx. xxi After a thousand hammerings of the menaces of Gods law. a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iv. 477 I have found the first working too laborious to leave me strength for a second hammering. 1811 Sporting Mag. 37 18 He stood the hammering of his antagonist..with uncommon firmness. 1883 W. E. Norris No New Thing III. xxxv. 224 I'll give you such a hammering that you won't do it again for a year. 2. figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > [noun] > contriving or devising crafta1398 artifice1526 contriving1583 hammering1589 contrivement1599 contrival1602 mintage1632 contrivance1644 fabrefaction1652 artificery1688 1589 Pappe with Hatchet (1844) 34 Newe alterations were in hammering. 1626 Let. 22 Sept. in R. F. Williams Birch's Court & Times Charles I (1848) (modernized text) I. 150 There is a hammering..a brave design to set forth the next spring. b. Stock Market slang. (See hammer v. 2d.) ΚΠ 1893 Times 19 Dec. 11/3 ‘Bears’ assisted the decline by ‘hammering’. c. Of grapes: see hammered adj. b. ΚΠ 1882 Garden 21 Jan. 50/3 The views of those who have maintained that the hammering was due to culture more than anything else. 3. Hesitation in speech, stammering. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > defective or inarticulate speech > [noun] > stammer or stammering stammering1357 wlafferinga1387 mammeringa1425 stuttingc1430 stackeringc1440 stotingc1440 tattling1481 staggering1565 manting1568 maffling1577 stuttering1595 buffing1600 stammeringness1637 titubation1641 balbuties1655 traulism1678 hesitation1709 hammering1731 hobbling1753 stammer1773 mant1801 stutter1843 Hottentotism1871 hesitatingness1890 1731 R. Wodrow Corr. (1843) III. 489 I never..saw so much hammering and indecency in delivery. 1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Hammering, stammering. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online September 2021). hammeringadj. That hammers. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > working with tools or equipment > [adjective] mortaring1596 hammering1639 1639 S. Du Verger tr. J.-P. Camus Admirable Events 129 That puts a thousand hammering suspitions into thy head. 1895 Athenæum 24 Aug. 257/1 It is the hammering alliteration which he especially adopts. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.1563adj.1639 |
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