Bushhammer :: Bushhammer (n.) A hammer with a head formed of a bundle of square bars, with pyramidal points, arranged in rows, or a solid head with a face cut into a number of rows of such points; -- used for dressing stone..

Bushhammer :: Bushhammer (v. t.) To dress with bushhammer; as, to bushhammer a block of granite..

Gold-hammer :: Gold-hammer (n.) The yellow-hammer.

Hammer :: Hammer (n.) An instrument for driving nails, beating metals, and the like, consisting of a head, usually of steel or iron, fixed crosswise to a handle..

Hammer :: Hammer (n.) Something which in firm or action resembles the common hamme.

Hammer :: Hammer (n.) That part of a clock which strikes upon the bell to indicate the hour.

Hammer :: Hammer (n.) The padded mallet of a piano, which strikes the wires, to produce the tones..

Hammer :: Hammer (n.) The malleus.

Hammer :: Hammer (n.) That part of a gunlock which strikes the percussion cap, or firing pin; the cock; formerly, however, a piece of steel covering the pan of a flintlock musket and struck by the flint of the cock to ignite the priming..

Hammer :: Hammer (n.) Also, a person of thing that smites or shatters; as, St. Augustine was the hammer of heresies..

Hammer :: Hammer (v. t.) To beat with a hammer; to beat with heavy blows; as, to hammer iron..

Hammer :: Hammer (v. t.) To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.

Hammer :: Hammer (v. t.) To form in the mind; to shape by hard intellectual labor; -- usually with out.

Hammer :: Hammer (v. i.) To be busy forming anything; to labor hard as if shaping something with a hammer.

Hammer :: Hammer (v. i.) To strike repeated blows, literally or figuratively..

Hammer-beam :: Hammer-beam (n.) A member of one description of roof truss, called hammer-beam truss, which is so framed as not to have a tiebeam at the top of the wall. Each principal has two hammer-beams, which occupy the situation, and to some extent serve the purpose, of a tiebeam..

Hammer-dressed :: Hammer-dressed (a.) Having the surface roughly shaped or faced with the stonecutter's hammer; -- said of building stone.

Hammer-harden :: Hammer-harden (v. t.) To harden, as a metal, by hammering it in the cold state..

Hammer-less :: Hammer-less (a.) Without a visible hammer; -- said of a gun having a cock or striker concealed from sight, and out of the way of an accidental touch..

Hammerable :: Hammerable (a.) Capable of being formed or shaped by a hammer.

Hammercloth :: Hammercloth (n.) The cloth which covers a coach box.

Hammered :: Hammered (imp. & p. p.) of Hamme.

Hammerer :: Hammerer (n.) One who works with a hammer.

Hammerhead :: Hammerhead (n.) A shark of the genus Sphyrna or Zygaena, having the eyes set on projections from the sides of the head, which gives it a hammer shape. The Sphyrna zygaena is found in the North Atlantic. Called also hammer fish, and balance fish..

Hammerhead :: Hammerhead (n.) A fresh-water fish; the stone-roller.

Hammerhead :: Hammerhead (n.) An African fruit bat (Hypsignathus monstrosus); -- so called from its large blunt nozzle.

Hammering :: Hammering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hamme.

Hammerkop :: Hammerkop (n.) A bird of the Heron family; the umber.

Hammerman :: Hammerman (n.) A hammerer; a forgeman.

Hammermen :: Hammermen (pl. ) of Hammerma.

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