hammer
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1. hammer - Noun
2. hammer - Verb
3. Hammer - Proper noun
Meaning
An instrument for driving nails, beating metals, and the like, consisting of a head, usually of steel or iron, fixed crosswise to a handle.
Something which in firm or action resembles the common hammer
That part of a clock which strikes upon the bell to indicate the hour.
The padded mallet of a piano, which strikes the wires, to produce the tones.
The malleus.
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.
Also, a person of thing that smites or shatters; as, St. Augustine was the hammer of heresies.
To beat with a hammer; to beat with heavy blows; as, to hammer iron.
To form in the mind; to shape by hard intellectual labor; -- usually with out.
To be busy forming anything; to labor hard as if shaping something with a hammer.
To strike repeated blows, literally or figuratively.
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This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.
A golden hammer breaks an iron gate.
The iron never takes advice from the hammer.
The anvil lasts longer than the hammer.