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A tool with a heavy head and a handle used for pounding.
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Bobby used a hammer and nails to fix the two planks together
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The act of using a hammer to hit something}}
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The nail is too loose - give it a hammer.
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A moving part of a firearm that strikes the firing pin to discharge a gun.
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The malleus, a small bone of the middle ear.
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In a piano or dulcimer, a piece of wood covered in felt that strikes the string.
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The sound the piano makes comes from the hammers striking the strings
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A device made of a heavy steel ball attached to a length of wire, and used for throwing.
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The last stone in an end.
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(frisbee) A frisbee throwing style in which the disc is held upside-down with a forehand grip and thrown above the head.
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Part of a clock that strikes upon a bell to indicate the hour.
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One who, or that which, smites or shatters.
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St. Augustine was the hammer of heresies.