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hammer1 /ˈhamə /noun1A tool with a heavy metal head mounted at right angles at the end of a handle, used for jobs such as breaking things and driving in nails.Grip pressure should be firm but not tight - about the way you would grip a hammer's handle while driving nails....- Most of the project requires basic wood-working tools - a circular saw, a saber saw, an electric drill, a hammer, and a nail set.
- Before you hit your sales reps with a lot of questions or break out the hammer and nails to begin building displays, do an assessment of your shop.
Synonyms 1.1A machine with a metal block for giving a heavy blow to something.A hydraulic hammer is basically a hydraulically powered reciprocating piston inside of a body....- Shaw points out that hydraulic hammers and pulverizer attachments have allowed them to pick up demolition work on bridges and commercial and industrial buildings.
- Hydraulic hammers and breakers, attached to big excavators or scudding skid-steers, announce demolition.
1.2An auctioneer’s gavel, tapped to indicate a sale.City fans will be given a chance to get hold of their own piece of football history when items from Maine Road go under the auctioneer's hammers....- A auctioneer lowers his hammer as a painting believed to be a work by Vincent Van Gogh is sold for US $550,000 in Tokyo yesterday.
- Before I knew it my arm flew up, the auctioneer banged the hammer down and she was mine!
1.3A part of a mechanism that hits another part to make it work, such as one exploding the charge in a gun or one striking the strings of a piano.On the other hand, Debussy seems at times to call for a delicacy beyond the capability of fingers or for a piano which has no hammers at all....- The SFS adds a mechanical hammer block to prevent the hammer from hitting the firing pin unless the trigger is pulled.
- If struck a hard blow, the hammers are designed to shear rather than override the sears.
2A metal ball of about 7 kg attached to a wire for throwing in an athletic contest.And what about if the hockey was taking place on the same field that they were throwing the hammer and javelin....- For Skyrac AC Nicola Jackson threw the hammer 39.22m for sixth place.
- Aidan Kelly scored top points when finishing in 1st place in the hammer with a throw of 36.24.
2.1 ( the hammer) The sport of throwing a hammer.There is also a track surface to provide a run-up for the javelin meaning the only disciplines the facility cannot currently play host to is the hammer and pole vault....- We are very strong here in Sligo on the track, but quite weak in some field events such as pole vault, high jump and hammer.
- In the under-17 events, James Nagle won gold in the hammer and shot putt contests.
3 another term for malleus.The findings are drawn from examination of the hammer, anvil and stirrup bones in the ears of Homo heidelbergensis fossils, also known as Boxgrove Man....- The drum vibrates with the sound and rattles three small bones: the hammer, anvil and stirrup.
- There they became the anvil and the hammer, minute bones that transmit sound from the eardrum to the stirrup bone and, ultimately, to the inner ear.
verb [with object]1Hit or beat (something) repeatedly with a hammer or similar object: he hammered the tack in...- With the birds already in the construction I couldn't start hammering a new thing onto it, nor could they really be moved for fear of traumatising the newborn ducklings.
- We heard the rhythmic pounding as the spear points were hammered onto shafts of ash wood.
- A golden spike was hammered into the ground to symbolize the momentous occasion.
Synonyms beat, forge, shape, form, mould, fashion, make 1.1 [no object] Strike or knock at or on something violently with one’s hand or with a hammer or other object: she hammered on his door [with object]: he hammered the ball wildly over the crossbar...- On a coffee table in their sitting room stood two cups of cold coffee and the remains of two cream cakes - all that was left of the snack they abandoned last night when a neighbour hammered on their door and told them they had to get out.
- Stephen then hammered on the door of a house to get help and an elderly man let him in and comforted him for half-an-hour before he walked for five minutes up the road to his home.
- Both Mr Noble and Mr Roper then hammered on the room doors along the corridor to rouse other guests before dashing upstairs to wake people on the top floor.
Synonyms batter, pummel, beat, bang, pound; strike, hit, knock on, thump on; cudgel, bludgeon, club, pelt, assail, thwack informal bash, wallop, clobber, whack 1.2 [no object] ( hammer away) Work hard and persistently: they must hammer away at these twin themes day after day...- I continue to hammer away at the importance of public broadcasting, and the importance of saving our book publishing industry.
- SGI continues to be happy hammering away on the high end graphics and scientific computing markets.
- While the company continues to hammer away at the upscale appliance market in the United States, it has opened its once-proprietary control protocol to other companies.
Synonyms work hard, labour, slog away, plod away, grind away, slave away, work like a Trojan, work like a dog, keep one's nose to the grindstone; persist with, persevere with, keep on with, press on with, not cease from informal stick at, peg away at, beaver away at, plug away at, work one's socks off on, sweat blood for, soldier on with, kill oneself with British informal graft away at rare drudge away at 1.3 ( hammer something in/into) Inculcate something forcefully or repeatedly: a commercial image that was hammered into English consciousness...- Indeed, the point was hammered in by a voice-overed narrator contributing fatuous observations like ‘The huge gulf between rich and poor highlights how lucky we are in New Zealand!’
- The deal is simple, and he hammers it in more specifically: ‘Do not play with our security, and spontaneously you will secure yourself.’
- If Democrats don't soon begin to strongly support serious movement to renewable energy sources - including hammering the idea in the corporate media - then Republicans may do just that.
Synonyms drum, instil, inculcate, knock, drive, din; drive home to, impress upon, teach repeatedly to, reiterate to; ingrain 2 informal Attack or criticize forcefully and relentlessly: he got hammered for an honest mistake...- This is the first time I've ever had a case where in a shoplifting situation somebody has been hammered this relentlessly.
- The author has been hammered by critics into a tiny ball of bloody gunk over the last few months.
- They just attacked me, hammered me at the book signing.
Synonyms criticize, censure, attack, condemn, castigate, chastise, lambaste, pillory, reprimand, rebuke, admonish, remonstrate with, take to task, haul over the coals, berate, reproach, reprove informal knock, slam, lay into, roast, cane, blast, bawl out, dress down British informal carpet, slate, slag off, monster, rollick North American informal chew out, ream out, pummel, cut up Australian/New Zealand informal bag rare excoriate, objurgate, reprehend 2.1Utterly defeat in a game or contest: they hammered St Mirren 4-0...- Although Skolars were hammered by a record score in the last game against Batley, Moorby is still taking the game seriously.
- We got a glimpse of what may be possible when we hammered Doncaster in the opening game.
- Swinging early and connecting often, the Giants hammered Curt Schilling and Brian Anderson in the first two games.
Synonyms trounce, defeat, beat, beat hollow, worst, best, overwhelm, rout, annihilate, bring someone to their knees informal thrash, clobber, lick, demolish, slaughter, murder, paste, pound, drub, give someone a drubbing, wipe the floor with, take to the cleaners, run rings round, walk all over, make mincemeat of, turn something inside out British informal stuff, marmalize North American informal shellac, cream, skunk, blow out US informal own 3 Stock Market, informal Beat down the price of (a stock): sceptical investors hammered the computer company’s stock...- The big reason investors aren't hammering buyers' stocks: Most acquirers have become cautious about not overpaying.
- Its stock has been hammered because it's struggling with recent acquisitions, but Moore believes those are short-term problems.
- If it is, then BA's earnings and share price will be hammered.
4 Stock Market Declare (a person or company) a defaulter: Willis was hammered in the recession...- Meanwhile Woolner and Sumner-Jones were declared in default and ‘hammered’ on the Stock Exchange, meaning they could no longer trade.
- Such a member is said to be "hammered," and his name is struck off the list.
From the practice of striking three strokes with a mallet on the side of a rostrum in the Stock Exchange before a formal declaration of default Phrasescome (or go) under the hammer hammer and tongs hammer something home Phrasal verbsDerivativeshammerless /ˈhamələs / adjective ...- The shift from pins to hammerless equipment improved the sustainability of a finite resource - some cracks were becoming nothing more than a series of pin scars - and, consequently, improved the sustainability of the sport itself.
- ‘We have taken the striker-fired hammerless slide and barrel portion prevalent in our European competitors and integrated them into the 1911 handset,’ said Brent Mounts of Alchemy Arms.
- The double-barrel shotgun, preferably the hammerless kind that ‘on-safes’ itself each time the action is opened, has served the same function on the shotgun side for decades.
OriginOld English hamor, hamer, of Germanic origin: related to Dutch hamer, German Hammer, and Old Norse hamarr 'rock'. The original sense was probably 'stone tool'. Old English hamor has a Germanic origin, related to German Hammer, and Old Norse hamarr ‘rock, crag’. The original sense was probably ‘stone tool or weapon’. The expression hammer and tongs (early 18th century) meaning ‘with energy and speed’ comes from the blacksmith showering blows on the iron taken by the help of tongs from the fire.
RhymesAlabama, clamour (US clamor), crammer, gamma, glamour (US glamor), gnamma, grammar, jammer, lamber, mamma, rammer, shammer, slammer, stammer, yammer Hammer2 /ˈhamə /(in full Hammer Film Productions) 1A British film company founded in 1948, known especially for its horror films. 1.1 [usually as modifier] A film produced by Hammer Film Productions: a Hammer horror movie |