Word Finder - hammer

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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.

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To strike repeatedly with a hammer, some other implement, the fist, etc.

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Tony hammered on the door to try to get him to open.

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To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.

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To emphasize a point repeatedly.

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To hit particularly hard.

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To ride very fast.

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To strike internally, as if hit by a hammer.

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I could hear the engine’s valves hammering once the timing rod was thrown.

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To defeat (a person, a team) resoundingly

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We hammered them 5-0!

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To make high demands on (a system or service).

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To declare (a person) a defaulter on the stock exchange.

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To beat down the price of (a stock), or depress (a market).

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To have hard sex with

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Daniel hammered Mary til he came.

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The two boys were there, busily working with hammer and saw.

I grasped a large hammer in my hand while Molly cowered in a corner at my direction.

It had been made by means of the hammer only.

We also can't hammer nails with our hands, so we invented hammers.

Meade was to "hammer" Lee, and Sherman, at the head of the armies which had been engaged at Chattanooga and Knoxville, was to deal with the other great field army of Confederates under Johnston, and as far as possible gain ground for the Union in the south-east.

I'm just a hammer; you guys are the builders.

Using the hammer only, some of them can beat out an intricate shape as truly and delicately as a sculptor could carve it with his chisels.

The Bombay mint was set up about the year 1671, but the coins were made by hammer and anvil until 1800.

He was also waving a hammer toward the bus driver.

Outside a hammer stopped beating in the old Muslim carpenter 's wizened hand.

Temptation had been pounding on the door with a sledge hammer lately.

The metal is pretty soft and easily flattened out under the hammer, but almost devoid of tenacity.

The liquid when soaked into a porous combustible substance like blotting-paper burns rapidly and quietly, and when struck with a hammer on a hard surface violently detonates; when a little of the liquid is spread on an anvil and struck, the portion immediately under the hammer only will, as a rule, detonate, the remainder being scattered.

Give me a hammer, and let me feel for the furring.

To test the purity of the metal the tin-smelter heats the bars to a certain temperature just below the fusing point, and then strikes them with a hammer or lets them fall on a stone floor from a given height.

This term of course includes as special cases the qualities of "malleability" (capability of being flattened out under the hammer) and "ductility" (capability of being drawn into wire); but these two special qualities do not always go parallel to each other, for this reason amongst others - that ductility in a higher degree than malleability is determined by the tenacity of a metal.

Pure iron, copper, silver and other metals are easily drawn into wire, or rolled into sheet, or flattened under the hammer.

The seventh is to hammer gold into the outlines of the diaper; the eighth, to hammer it into the pattern filling the spaces between the lines, and the ninth and tenth to complete the details.

Fabre states that the lastnamed insect uses a stone for the temporary closing of her burrow, and the Peckhams have seen a female Ammophila take a stone between her mandibles and use it as a hammer for pounding down the earth over her finished nest.

If the scale is only slightly out of the perpendicular, a few taps of the hammer will modify any trifling error."

If we watch a man breaking stones by the roadside some distance away, we can see the hammer fall before we hear the blow.

He is in fact represented as an idealized Greek craftsman, with the hammer, and sometimes the pincers.

Some mythologists have compared the hammer of Hephaestus with that of Thor, and have explained it as the emblem of a thunder-god; but it is Zeus, not Hephaestus, who causes the thunder, and the emblems of the latter god are merely the signs of his occupation as a smith.

They take their name of tuco-tuco from their cry, which resembles the blows of a hammer on an anvil, and may be heard all day as the little rodents move in their burrows, generally formed in sandy soil.

Although the presence of 1.50% of manganese makes steel relatively brittle, and although a further addition at first increases this brittleness, so that steel containing between 4 and 5.5% can be pulverized under the hammer, yet a still further increase gives very great ductility, accompanied by great hardness-a combination of properties which was not possessed by any other known substance when this remarkable alloy, known as Hadfield's manganese steel, was discovered.

In lathing I was pleased to be able to send home each nail with a single blow of the hammer, and it was my ambition to transfer the plaster from the board to the wall neatly and rapidly.

Also, when battling enemies, you'll use famous weapons such as turtle shells and fire plants, as well as hammers from the hammer bros.

You can find everything from Stephanie's Recipes to a production blog and the Hammer It Home game.

He was using the truth to hammer down her resistance and his power to seduce her.

And she had rubbed her morals in his face again – only this time she had used other people's opinion as a hammer to drive her morals home.

This all took place at Valarshapat, where Gregory, anxious to fix a site on which to build shrines for the relics of Ripsime and Gaiana, saw the Son of God come down in a sheen of light, the stars of heaven attending, and smite the earth with a golden hammer till the nether world resounded to his blows.

This hammer is arranged so that when the armature vibrates it gives little blows to the underside of the tube and shakes up the filings.

Steenstrup during several years, Captain Hammer in 1879-1880, Captain Ryder in 1886-1887, Dr Drygalski in 1891-1893, 2 and several American expeditions in later years, all examined the question closely.

They are subject to considerable internal strain, as is shown by the fact that when struck with a hammer or sliced with a lapidary's saw they often burst into fragments.

The upper die was then placed on the blank, and kept in position by means of a holder round which was placed a roll of lead to protect the hand of the operator while heavy blows were struck with a hammer.

See Rhode, Res Lemnicae; Conze, Reise auf den Inseln des Thrakischen Meeres (from which the above-mentioned facts about the present state of the island are taken); also Hunt in Walpole's Travels; Belon du Mans, Observations de plusieurs singularitez, &c.; Finlay, Greece under the Romans; von Hammer, Gesch.

Or, if hard, its surface can be picked all over with a bush hammer.

Scarcely more is to be said in favour of the suggestion made by Von Hammer; but better known in connexion with the name of Lagarde, who connects the name Purim with the old Zoroastrian festival of the dead, entitled Farwardigan.

Von Hammer in reply adduced, in Journ.

Loosen the tile by using a hammer and a metal putty knife.

It was our goal that by using a hammer and screwdriver, we could chisel and opening in the floor above.

Elsewhere he was the artizan-god Ptah, who with his hammer broke the egg; sometimes Thoth, the moon-god and principle of intelligence, who spoke the world into existence.'

The most ancient coins were cast in bulletshaped or conical moulds and marked on one side by means of a die which was struck with a hammer.

Next, secure using a claw hammer and punch.

A claw hammer is probably the best for general DIY.

The helve, or main beam of the hammer, rotates freely about the fixed pivot.

Simply tap the surface with a hammer, then use a bolster chisel to get behind the skimmed plaster.

Yet our Lord owned me here also, and the hammer of his word broke the rock of absolute predestination in pieces.

The EX Factor finalists literally graced the red carpet as they came under the hammer in front of a star gazed audience.

On its highest pinnacle floated a large red flag with a yellow sickle and hammer in one corner.