Definition of hammer

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

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Anvil :: Anvil (n.) An iron block, usually with a steel face, upon which metals are hammered and shaped..
Sinter :: Sinter (n.) Dross, as of iron; the scale which files from iron when hammered; -- applied as a name to various minerals..
Hammerman :: Hammerman (n.) A hammerer; a forgeman.
Hewn :: Hewn (a.) Roughly dressed as with a hammer; as, hewn stone..
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..
Tilting :: Tilting (n.) The process by which blister steel is rendered ductile by being forged with a tilt hammer.
Hammer :: Hammer (v. t.) To form in the mind; to shape by hard intellectual labor; -- usually with out.
Raising :: Raising (n.) The operation of embossing sheet metal, or of forming it into cup-shaped or hollow articles, by hammering, stamping, or spinning..
Hammer :: Hammer (v. t.) To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.
Cock :: Cock (n.) The hammer in the lock of a firearm.
Sheep''s-foot :: Sheep's-foot (n.) A printer's tool consisting of a metal bar formed into a hammer head at one end and a claw at the other, -- used as a lever and hammer..
Ped :: Ped (n.) A basket; a hammer; a pannier.
Forgeman :: Forgeman (n.) A skilled smith, who has a hammerer to assist him..
Trip Hammer :: Trip hammer () A tilt hammer.
Hammer :: Hammer (v. i.) To be busy forming anything; to labor hard as if shaping something with a hammer.
Clinkstone :: Clinkstone (n.) An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite..
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..
Shingling :: Shingling (n.) The process of expelling scoriae and other impurities by hammering and squeezing, in the production of wrought iron..
Hammerkop :: Hammerkop (n.) A bird of the Heron family; the umber.
Water Hammer :: Water hammer () A vessel partly filled with water, exhausted of air, and hermetically sealed. When reversed or shaken, the water being unimpeded by air, strikes the sides in solid mass with a sound like that of a hammer..
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