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hammer🔊

(tool) A tool with a heavy head and a handle used for pounding.

The act of using a hammer to hit something.

(anatomy) The malleus, a small bone of the middle ear.

(music) (music) In a piano or dulcimer, a piece of wood covered in felt that strikes the string.

(sports) A device made of a heavy steel ball attached to a length of wire, and used for throwing.

(curling) The last stone in an end.

(frisbee) A frisbee throwing style in which the disc is held upside-down with a forehand grip and thrown above the head.

Part of a clock that strikes upon a bell to indicate the hour.

One who, or that which, smites or shatters.

(journalism) (hammer headline)

(motor racing) The accelerator pedal.

(firearms) (firearms) A moving part of a firearm that strikes the firing pin to discharge a gun.

(loosely) A handgun.

To strike repeatedly with a hammer, some other implement, the fist, etc.

To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.

(figuratively) To emphasize a point repeatedly.

(etc.) To hit particularly hard.

(slang) To ride very fast.

To strike internally, as if hit by a hammer.

(sports) To defeat (a person, a team) resoundingly.

(computing) To make high demands on (a system or service).

(finance) To declare (a person) a defaulter on the stock exchange.

(finance) To beat down the price of (a stock), or depress (a market).

(colloquial) To have hard sex with.

📑 Synonyms: pound smash