transitive. To hit, smite (a material, an object) with an implement, esp. with one designed for the purpose. Also with cognate object.

literal. To strike, beat, or drive with or as with a hammer.

transitive. To beat or strike (an object) with or as with a maul or hammer; to hammer, batter, beat. Also figurative. Obsolete.

transitive. To secure (a nail or bolt) by hammering or beating out the projecting end of the shank into a head or knob; to clinch. Also with down…

transitive. To fix or fasten by hammering; to drive in (esp. a nail) by hammering. Also with on, in, etc.

transitive. Originally: to beat thin with a hammer, to hammer out; to strike with the peen of a hammer. Now also: to subject (a surface) to the…

transitive. To strike (stone, soil, etc.) with a pick or other sharp implement; (also) to mark with short strokes; to carve, mark, incise…

transitive. To beat or hammer (as) with a mallet; (also figurative, Army slang) to reprimand severely, crush utterly.

transitive. To beat with a beetle, in order to thresh, crush, or flatten; also, technical, to emboss fabrics by pressure from figured rollers.

transitive. To break or work at with a pickaxe. Also with away, down, open, etc. Also figurative and in extended use.

transitive. To break or drive in (something) with a sledgehammer.

transitive to strike, work at, as with a sledgehammer.

a light hammer for driving tacks; also as v. transitive.

transitive. = peen, v.

transitive. To have the action or effect of a piledriver on; to drive piles into (the ground). Also figurative.

a hand-held device for driving staples home; hence (hyphenated) as v. transitive.