hammer

  • (noun): A tool with a heavy head and a handle used for pounding.
  • (noun): The act of using a hammer to hit something}}
  • (noun): A moving part of a firearm that strikes the firing pin to discharge a gun.
  • (noun): The malleus, a small bone of the middle ear.
  • (noun): In a piano or dulcimer, a piece of wood covered in felt that strikes the string.
  • (noun): A device made of a heavy steel ball attached to a length of wire, and used for throwing.
  • (noun): The last stone in an end.
  • (noun): (frisbee) A frisbee throwing style in which the disc is held upside-down with a forehand grip and thrown above the head.
  • (noun): Part of a clock that strikes upon a bell to indicate the hour.
  • (noun): One who, or that which, smites or shatters.
  • (verb): To strike repeatedly with a hammer, some other implement, the fist, etc.
  • (verb): To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.
  • (verb): To emphasize a point repeatedly.
  • (verb): To hit particularly hard.
  • (verb): To ride very fast.
  • (verb): To strike internally, as if hit by a hammer.
  • (verb): To defeat (a person, a team) resoundingly
  • (verb): To make high demands on (a system or service).
  • (verb): To declare (a person) a defaulter on the stock exchange.
  • (verb): To beat down the price of (a stock), or depress (a market).
  • (verb): To have hard sex with
  • Bobby used a hammer and nails to fix the two planks together
  • The nail is too loose - give it a hammer.
  • The sound the piano makes comes from the hammers striking the strings
  • St. Augustine was the hammer of heresies.
  • Tony hammered on the door to try to get him to open.