Word Finder - hammered

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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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• pound

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Having been hit with a hammer or hammer-like object.

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Very drunk; inebriated.

These he hammered and shaped and fitted to the horse's feet.

In the Ligore ware the hammered ground-work is inlaid with a black composition of sulphides of baser metals which throws up the pattern with distinctness.

Her heart hammered in her ears, her eyes watering once more.

The sight of the child hammered home his desire for a future with Jenn.

Warmth flooded up her neck and her heart hammered against her ribs.

From the latter came the bronze gates with hammered reliefs, which are now in the British Museum.

It is brittle, and when hammered readily breaks up into a powder of angular grains.

They've been in a steady downtrend since Mid-late 2005, and getting hammered further today.

Creepy horror film from 1919 with live music on hammered dulcimer, what more can you ask for!

Before take off from England I'd hammered those pins in so tight that it would have taken a hacksaw to get them out.

Unlike ionic solids, metals are very malleable, they can be readily bent, pressed or hammered into shape.

In no time at all it seemed I had reached a small recess with an old piton hammered into a crack.

The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.

We hammered Hastings at Marston Road only to drop 2 points to a late sucker punch.

A great antique hammered pewter tankard, with a glass bottom, dating to circa 1930.

Hammered bands with textured ripples or geometric patterns across the entire surface.

The story, as told by Forbes.com, "In December 1999, one of the most complicated watches ever made became the most expensive watch ever sold when it was hammered down for $11 million at Sotheby's."

Silver has been molded and hammered to create a variety of jewelry, cutlery, serving pieces and lamps for centuries.

I hammered out stories and even rough novel manuscripts on old typewriters, and I started submitting to magazines (and getting rejected) when I was 12.

I can't imagine trying to sleep with just a couple of little steel pegs hammered into the rock the only thing holding me from a couple of thousand foot drop!

If, on the one hand, huge stones are transported hundreds of miles from sea-shore or river-bed where, in the lapse of long centuries, waves and cataracts have hammered them into strange shapes, and if the harmonizing of their various colors and the adjustment of their forms to environment are studied with profound subtlety, so the training and tending of the trees and shrubs that keep them company require much taste and much toil.

The pure metal is silver-white in colour, is very ductile, and becomes remarkably hard when hammered, a diamond drill making little impression upon it.

It is regarded with great reverence, owing to a legend that the inner band of iron has been hammered out of one of the nails of the true cross.

The artificers in gold and silver melted the metals by means of a reed-blowpipe and cast them solid or hollow, and were also skilled in hammered work and chasing, as some fine specimens remain to show, though the famous animals modelled with gold and silver, fur, feathers and scales have disappeared.

These are no longer cast but hammered into shape, and decoration is elaborate curvilixear rather than simple rectilinear, the forms and character of the ornamentation of the northern European weapons resembling in some respects Roman arms, while in others they are peculiar and evidently representative of northern art.

With increased skill in large castings, and the discovery of the use of cores, by which the fluid bronze was poured into a mere skin-like cavity, hammered or repousse work was only used in the case of small objects in which lightness was desirable, or for the precious metals in order to avoid large expenditure of metal.

If an object has to be beaten into concave form from a flat thin sheet, the outer portions must be hammered until they occupy smaller dimensions than on the flat sheet.

The extreme tenuity of objects which are hammered, drawn or rolled cannot for obvious reasons be attained by casting.

The ancient wootz, and the products of the native furnaces of Africa are first cast, then hammered out thin.

Pasubio was the key of the situation, and the Austrians hammered unceasingly against Bertotti's right wing.

For a long fortnight Dankl hammered at the line south of the Posina and east of the Val Canaglia, but could not gain a yard.

The scorifier is taken from the muffle in a pair of tongs and the contents poured into a mould, the lead forming a button in the bottom while the slag floats on top. When cold, the contents of the mould are taken out and the lead button hammered into the form of a cube, the slag, which is glassy and brittle, separating readily from the metal, which is then ready for cupellation.

The resulting lead button hammered P into shape and carefully cleansed from slag is ready for the cupel.

When cold, the button is hammered, cleaned carefully from slag, and weighed.

There were four boilers made of thin hammered copper and weighing a little more than 7 lb each; these occupied the middle portion of the fish.

The kings futile activity led to ever more frequent gatherings of the Great Council, in which the theory of the constitution was gradually hammered out by countless debates between the sovereign and his subjects.

It means the shiny arc of reflected light on a chrome bumper instead of the smith's blacking on a hammered iron rail.

Some top cymbals are hand hammered by skilled craftsmen who have learned a craft passed down over the centuries.

The UK seems to be desperately trying to deal with two conflicting viewpoints suddenely hammered together.

To what end, pray, is so much stone hammered?

Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave.

He rushed at the barefooted Frenchman and, before the latter had time to draw his sword, knocked him off his feet and hammered him with his fists.

Southwestern hardware can range from hammered metal to intricate western and Native American motifs like those used in carved furniture pieces.

The Hammered Copper Top Dining Table is a stunning round table from the Casual Lifestyle category that comfortably seats four people.

What makes this table unique and impressive is the hammered copper finish on the top.

A wrought iron hanging pot rack filled with cast iron and hammered copper pots adds warmth and charm to a rustic log cabin kitchen.

Other types of finishes can include the hammered effect as though it's been fashioned by hand.

For this reason, a hammered copper sink is the perfect vehicle for bringing old world detail and charm to the home.

Copper has a rich luster and beauty when hammered into the shape of a sink.

Hammered copper sinks that have been given a dark patina are the perfect complement to a stone bathroom or kitchen design.