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Defenition of the word hammer

    • Defenition of the word hammer

      • A tool with a heavy head and a handle used for pounding.
      • A bone in the middle ear, in between the eardrum and the anvil.
      • The part of a firearm that hits the back of the bullet and sets it off, firing the gun.
      • To strike repeatedly with a hammer or some other implement.
      • To create and mold by hammering.
      • of metals
      • a small mallet used by a presiding officer or a judge
      • a hand tool with a heavy rigid head and a handle; used to deliver an impulsive force by striking
      • the felt-covered striker that causes the piano strings to vibrate
      • the part of a gunlock that strikes the percussion cap when the trigger is pulled
      • a heavy metal sphere attached to a flexible wire; used in the hammer throw
      • beat with or as if with a hammer
      • an athletic competition in which a heavy metal ball that is attached to a flexible wire is hurled as far as possible
      • the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows); "the sudden hammer of fists caught him off guard"; "the pounding of feet on the hallway"
      • a power tool for drilling rocks
      • the ossicle attached to the eardrum
      • a striker that is covered in felt and that causes the piano strings to vibrate
      • 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"
      • the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows)
      • a light drumstick with a rounded head that is used to strike such percussion instruments as chimes, kettledrums, marimbas, glockenspiels, etc.
      • create by hammering

    Synonyms for the word hammer

      • forge
      • gavel
      • hammer throw
      • hammering
      • malleus
      • pound
      • pounding
      • power hammer

    Meronymys for the word hammer

      • firing mechanism
      • gunlock
      • head
      • middle ear
      • piano action
      • tympanic cavity
      • tympanum

    Hyponyms for the word hammer

      • air hammer
      • ball-peen hammer
      • beetle
      • bricklayer's hammer
      • carpenter's hammer
      • claw hammer
      • clawhammer
      • dropforge
      • electric hammer
      • foliate
      • jackhammer
      • mallet
      • maul
      • percussor
      • plessor
      • plexor
      • pneumatic hammer
      • sledge
      • sledgehammer
      • tack hammer
      • triphammer

    Hypernyms for the word hammer

      • auditory ossicle
      • beat
      • blow
      • bonelet
      • carpenter's mallet
      • drumstick
      • field event
      • hand tool
      • mallet
      • ossicle
      • ossiculum
      • power tool
      • sporting goods
      • sports equipment
      • striker

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