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hammer |
1. n. A tool with a heavy head and a handle used for pounding. |
2. n. A moving part of a firearm that strikes the firing pin to discharge a gun. |
3. n. (anatomy) The malleus, a small bone of the middle ear. |
4. n. (music) In a piano or dulcimer, a piece of wood covered in felt that strikes the string. |
5. n. (sports) A device made of a heavy steel ball attached to a length of wire, and used for throwing. |
6. n. (curling) The last stone in an end. |
7. n. (Ultimate Frisbee) A frisbee throwing style in which the disc is held upside-down with a forehand grip and thrown above the head. |
8. n. Part of a clock that strikes upon a bell to indicate the hour. |
9. n. One who, or that which, smites or shatters. |
St. Augustine was the hammer of heresies. |
10. v. To strike repeatedly with a hammer, some other implement, the fist, etc. |
11. v. To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating. |
12. v. (figuratively) To emphasize a point repeatedly. |
13. v. (sports) To hit particularly hard. |
14. v. (cycling, intransitive, slang) To ride very fast. |
15. v. (intransitive) To strike internally, as if hit by a hammer. |
I could hear the engine’s valves hammering once the timing rod was thrown. |
16. v. (transitive figuratively, sports) To defeat (a person, a team) resoundingly |
We hammered them 5-0! |