Definition of hammer

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

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Hammerman :: Hammerman (n.) A hammerer; a forgeman.
Pickaxe :: Pickaxe (n.) A pick with a point at one end, a transverse edge or blade at the other, and a handle inserted at the middle; a hammer with a flattened end for driving wedges and a pointed end for piercing as it strikes..
Drop :: Drop (n.) A drop press or drop hammer.
Malleus :: Malleus (n.) A genus of bivalve shells; the hammer shell.
Tilt-mill :: Tilt-mill (n.) A mill where a tilt hammer is used, or where the process of tilting is carried on..
Forge :: Forge (n.) A place or establishment where iron or other metals are wrought by heating and hammering; especially, a furnace, or a shop with its furnace, etc., where iron is heated and wrought; a smithy..
Forge :: Forge (n.) To form by heating and hammering; to beat into any particular shape, as a metal..
Peen :: Peen (n.) The sharp-edged end of the head of a mason's hammer.
Gold-hammer :: Gold-hammer (n.) The yellow-hammer.
Snail :: Snail (n.) A spiral cam, or a flat piece of metal of spirally curved outline, used for giving motion to, or changing the position of, another part, as the hammer tail of a striking clock..
Flintlock :: Flintlock (n.) A lock for a gun or pistol, having a flint fixed in the hammer, which on striking the steel ignites the priming..
Clinkstone :: Clinkstone (n.) An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite..
Poll :: Poll (n.) The broad end of a hammer; the but of an ax.
Flint :: Flint (n.) A piece of flint for striking fire; -- formerly much used, esp. in the hammers of gun locks..
Set :: Set (n.) A piece placed temporarily upon the head of a pile when the latter cannot be reached by the weight, or hammer, except by means of such an intervening piece..
Extend :: Extend (v. t.) To enlarge, as a surface or volume; to expand; to spread; to amplify; as, to extend metal plates by hammering or rolling them..
Hammered :: Hammered (imp. & p. p.) of Hamme.
Tilt :: Tilt (n.) See Tilt hammer, in the Vocabulary..
Hammerhead :: Hammerhead (n.) A fresh-water fish; the stone-roller.
Forgeman :: Forgeman (n.) A skilled smith, who has a hammerer to assist him..
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