hammer : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: hammer	by the DICT Development Group
8 results for hammer
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hammer n the part of a gunlock that strikes the percussion cap when the trigger is pulled Synonym(s): hammer, cock a hand tool with a heavy rigid head and a handle; used to deliver an impulsive force by striking the ossicle attached to the eardrum Synonym(s): malleus, hammer a light drumstick with a rounded head that is used to strike such percussion instruments as chimes, kettledrums, marimbas, glockenspiels, etc. Synonym(s): mallet, hammer a heavy metal sphere attached to a flexible wire; used in the hammer throw a striker that is covered in felt and that causes the piano strings to vibrate a power tool for drilling rocks Synonym(s): hammer, power hammer the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows); "the sudden hammer of fists caught him off guard"; "the pounding of feet on the hallway" Synonym(s): hammer, pound, hammering, pounding v beat with or as if with a hammer; "hammer the metal flat" create by hammering; "hammer the silver into a bowl"; "forge a pair of tongues" Synonym(s): forge, hammer
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hammer \Ham"mer\, n. (Athletics) A spherical weight attached to a flexible handle and hurled from a mark or ring. The weight of head and handle is usually not less than 16 pounds.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hammer \Ham"mer\, n. [OE. hamer, AS. hamer, hamor; akin to D. hamer, G. & Dan. hammer, Sw. hammare, Icel. hamarr, hammer, crag, and perh. to Gr. [?] anvil, Skr. a[?]man stone.] 1. An instrument for driving nails, beating metals, and the like, consisting of a head, usually of steel or iron, fixed crosswise to a handle. With busy hammers closing rivets up. --Shak. 2. Something which in firm or action resembles the common hammer; as: (a) That part of a clock which strikes upon the bell to indicate the hour. (b) The padded mallet of a piano, which strikes the wires, to produce the tones. (c) (Anat.) The malleus. See under {Ear}. (Gun.) That part of a gunlock which strikes the percussion cap, or firing pin; the cock; formerly, however, a piece of steel covering the pan of a flintlock musket and struck by the flint of the cock to ignite the priming. (e) Also, a person of thing that smites or shatters; as, St. Augustine was the hammer of heresies. He met the stern legionaries [of Rome] who had been the [bd]massive iron hammers[b8] of the whole earth. --J. H. Newman. {Atmospheric hammer}, a dead-stroke hammer in which the spring is formed by confined air. {Drop hammer}, {Face hammer}, etc. See under {Drop}, {Face}, etc. {Hammer fish}. See {Hammerhead}. {Hammer hardening}, the process of hardening metal by hammering it when cold. {Hammer shell} (Zo[94]l.), any species of {Malleus}, a genus of marine bivalve shells, allied to the pearl oysters, having the wings narrow and elongated, so as to give them a hammer-shaped outline; -- called also {hammer oyster}. {To bring to the hammer}, to put up at auction.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hammer \Ham"mer\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Hammered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Hammering}.] 1. To beat with a hammer; to beat with heavy blows; as, to hammer iron. 2. To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating. [bd]Hammered money.[b8] --Dryden. 3. To form in the mind; to shape by hard intellectual labor; -- usually with out. Who was hammering out a penny dialogue. --Jeffry.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hammer \Ham"mer\, v. i. 1. To be busy forming anything; to labor hard as if shaping something with a hammer. Whereon this month I have hammering. --Shak. 2. To strike repeated blows, literally or figuratively. Blood and revenge are hammering in my head. --Shak.
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
hammer vt. Commonwealth hackish syn. for {bang on}.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
hammer Commonwealth hackish synonym for {bang on}. [{Jargon File}] (1995-02-16)
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Hammer (1.) Heb. pattish, used by gold-beaters (Isa. 41:7) and by quarry-men (Jer. 23:29). Metaphorically of Babylon (Jer. 50:23) or Nebuchadnezzar. (2.) Heb. makabah, a stone-cutter's mallet (1 Kings 6:7), or of any workman (Judg. 4:21; Isa. 44:12). (3.) Heb. halmuth, a poetical word for a workman's hammer, found only in Judg. 5:26, where it denotes the mallet with which the pins of the tent of the nomad are driven into the ground. (4.) Heb. mappets, rendered "battle-axe" in Jer. 51:20. This was properly a "mace," which is thus described by Rawlinson: "The Assyrian mace was a short, thin weapon, and must either have been made of a very tough wood or (and this is more probable) of metal. It had an ornamented head, which was sometimes very beautifully modelled, and generally a strap or string at the lower end by which it could be grasped with greater firmness."