Definition of hammer

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

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Battering-ram :: Battering-ram (n.) A blacksmith's hammer, suspended, and worked horizontally..
Sear :: Sear (n.) The catch in a gunlock by which the hammer is held cocked or half cocked.
Helve :: Helve (n.) The lever at the end of which is the hammer head, in a forge hammer..
Pick :: Pick (n.) A heavy iron tool, curved and sometimes pointed at both ends, wielded by means of a wooden handle inserted in the middle, -- used by quarrymen, roadmakers, etc.; also, a pointed hammer used for dressing millstones..
Tilter :: Tilter (n.) One who operates a tilt hammer.
Drop :: Drop (n.) A drop press or drop hammer.
Hammer :: Hammer (n.) Something which in firm or action resembles the common hamme.
Raising :: Raising (n.) The operation of embossing sheet metal, or of forming it into cup-shaped or hollow articles, by hammering, stamping, or spinning..
Hammercloth :: Hammercloth (n.) The cloth which covers a coach box.
Helve :: Helve (n.) A forge hammer which is lifted by a cam acting on the helve between the fulcrum and the head.
Hammer :: Hammer (v. t.) To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.
Upset :: Upset (v. t.) To thicken and shorten, as a heated piece of iron, by hammering on the end..
Beetle :: Beetle (v. t.) To finish by subjecting to a hammering process in a beetle or beetling machine; as, to beetle cotton goods..
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..
Cock :: Cock (v. t.) To draw the hammer of (a firearm) fully back and set it for firing.
Bruise :: Bruise (v. t.) To injure, as by a blow or collision, without laceration; to contuse; as, to bruise one's finger with a hammer; to bruise the bark of a tree with a stone; to bruise an apple by letting it fall..
Puddle-ball :: Puddle-ball (n.) The lump of pasty wrought iron as taken from the puddling furnace to be hammered or rolled.
Clinkstone :: Clinkstone (n.) An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite..
Tilt Hammer :: Tilt hammer () A tilted hammer; a heavy hammer, used in iron works, which is lifted or tilted by projections or wipers on a revolving shaft; a trip hammer..
Maul :: Maul (n.) A heavy wooden hammer or beetle.
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