Hammer

Noun

 * 1) A tool with a heavy head and a handle used for pounding.
 * 2) A moving part of a firearm that strikes the firing pin to discharge a gun.
 * 3)  The malleus.
 * 4)  In a piano or dulcimer, a piece of wood covered in felt that strikes the string.
 * 5)  A device made of a heavy steel ball attached to a length of wire, and used for throwing.
 * 6)  The last rock in an end.
 * 7)  A frisbee throwing style in which the disc is held upside-down with a forehand grip and thrown above the head.

Derived terms

 * ball peen hammer
 * claw hammer
 * cross peen hammer
 * hammer and sickle
 * hammerhead


 * sledgehammer
 * straight peen hammer
 * war hammer
 * Warrington hammer

Verb

 * 1) To strike repeatedly with a hammer, some other implement, the fist, etc.
 * 2)  To emphasize a point repeatedly.
 * 3)  To hit particularly hard.
 * 4) To strike internally, as if hit by a hammer.
 * I could hear the engine’s valves hammering once the timing rod was thrown.
 * 1)  To defeat (a person, a team) resoundingly
 * We hammered them 5-0!
 * We hammered them 5-0!

Derived terms

 * hammered
 * hammerer


 * sledgehammer

Adjectives for Hammer
ponderous; polished; deafening.

Verbs for Hammer
beat with—; clasp—; with—; employ—;labor with—; rap -with—; shape with—; smite with—; strike with—; swing—; tap with—; wield—; —injures; —menaces; — suffices.

Adverbs for Hammer
untiringly;   repetitiously;    energetically; deafeningly; maddeningly; industriously; monotonously; vigorously; thunderously.

Thesaurus
Eustachian tube, air hammer, anvil, assault, attack, auditory apparatus, auditory canal, auditory meatus, auditory nerve, auditory ossicles, auditory tube, auricle, ball peen hammer, bang, barbarize, basilar membrane, baste, batter, beat, beetle, belabor, bony labyrinth, brutalize, buffet, burn, butcher, carry on, cauliflower ear, chipping hammer, claw hammer, cochlea, conch, concha, destroy, dig, din, ding, drive, drop hammer, drub, drudge, drum, drumhead, ear, ear lobe, eardrum, elaborate, electric hammer, endolymph, external ear, fag, fashion, flail, flap, form, go on, grave, grind, grub, hammer away, incus, inner ear, jackhammer, knock, lambaste, larrup, lay waste, lobe, lobule, loot, lug, mallet, malleus, mastoid process, maul, middle ear, moil, mug, organ of Corti, outer ear, oval window, paste, patter, peg, peg away, pelt, perilymph, pile hammer, pillage, pinna, plod, plug, plug along, plug away, pommel, pound, pound away, pulverize, pummel, rage, raising hammer, ramp, rampage, rant, rap, rape, rave, riot, riveting hammer, roar, round window, rubber mallet, ruin, sack, savage, secondary eardrum, semicircular canals, shape, shell, slaughter, sledge, sledgehammer, slog, sow chaos, spank, stamp, stapes, steam hammer, stirrup, stone hammer, storm, stutter, tack hammer, tear, tear around, terrorize, thrash, thresh, thump, toil, travail, triphammer, tympanic cavity, tympanic membrane, tympanum, vandalize, vestibule, violate, wade through, wallop, whip, work away, wreck

Etymology
hamer:, hamor:, from  (compare Dutch hamer:, German Hammer:, Swedish hammare:), from  (compare Sanskrit aśmará 'stony'), from  'stone' (compare Lithuanian akmuõ:, Serbo-Croatian kamēn:, Albanian kmesë: 'sickle', Ancient Greek ἄκμων: 'meteor rock, anvil', Avestan asman, Sanskrit अश्मन्:), from  'sharp'. More at edge.

Pronunciation

 * , {{SAMPA|/"h{m.@(r)/}}
 * , {{SAMPA|/"h{m@`/}}
 * , {{SAMPA|/"h{m@`/}}
 * , {{SAMPA|/"h{m@`/}}

Noun

 * Albanian:
 * Amharic:
 * Armenian:
 * Old Armenian:, ,
 * Bosnian:
 * Breton:, morzholioù
 * Catalan: martell
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , ,
 * Min Nan: (kòng-thûi-á)
 * Crimean Tatar: çöküç
 * Croatian: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: haamer, vasar
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: ჩაქუჩი,
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: פַּטִּישׁ (pattísh)
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido: martelo
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: martello
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 金槌 (かなづち, kanazuchi), ハンマー (hammā)
 * Kazakh:
 * Korean: 망치


 * Kurdish: çekûç, keçûç ,
 * Latgalian:
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: āmurs
 * Lithuanian: plaktukas, kūjis
 * Luhya:
 * Macedonian: чекан
 * Malay: tukul
 * Malayalam: ചുറ്റിക (chuttika)
 * Maltese: martell
 * Ngarrindjeri:
 * Northern Sami: veažir
 * Norwegian (bokmål):
 * Norwegian (nynorsk): hammar
 * Persian: (chakosh)
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ;
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: чекић
 * Roman: čekić
 * Serbo-Croatian: čekić
 * Sicilian:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Taos: moltìyu’úna
 * Telugu: సుత్తి (sutti)
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh: morthwyl
 * West Frisian: hammer


 * Danish: geværhane
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Greek:, ,


 * Italian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: ударач
 * Roman: udarač
 * Swahili:




 * Polish: młoteczek


 * Swahili:


 * Danish:
 * Dutch:


 * Finnish:
 * Icelandic:


 * Swahili:


 * Swahili:

Verb

 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Kurdish:
 * Macedonian: зачукува,,  забива


 * Norwegian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian: čekićati, kovati
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: hamra
 * Turkish: çekiçlemek


 * Dutch: op ,


 * Macedonian: зачукува


 * Macedonian: чука


 * : morzholat
 * : martellar
 * : martellare
 * : جکش
 * : martelar
 * : hamra

Etymology
From hamarr:, from.

Noun

 * 1) hammer

Noun

 * 1) hammer

Noun

 * 1) hammer