hammer

hammer is a 6-letter English word with 22 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: An instrument for driving nails, beating metals, and the like, consisting of a head, usually of steel or iron, fixed crosswise to a handle. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 14 · 22 senses

Definitions

1. noun. An instrument for driving nails, beating metals, and the like, consisting of a head, usually of steel or iron, fixed crosswise to a handle.
2. noun. Something which in firm or action resembles the common hammer
3. noun. That part of a clock which strikes upon the bell to indicate the hour.
4. noun. The padded mallet of a piano, which strikes the wires, to produce the tones.
5. noun. The malleus.
6. noun. 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.
7. noun. Also, a person of thing that smites or shatters; as, St. Augustine was the hammer of heresies.
8. transitive verb. To beat with a hammer; to beat with heavy blows; as, to hammer iron.
9. transitive verb. To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.
10. transitive verb. To form in the mind; to shape by hard intellectual labor; -- usually with out.
11. intransitive verb. To be busy forming anything; to labor hard as if shaping something with a hammer.
12. intransitive verb. To strike repeated blows, literally or figuratively.
13. noun. the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows)

    "the sudden hammer of fists caught him off guard"

    "the pounding of feet on the hallway"

    Synonyms: hammering, pound, pounding

14. noun. a hand tool with a heavy rigid head and a handle; used to deliver an impulsive force by striking
15. noun. a power tool for drilling rocks
16. noun. a striker that is covered in felt and that causes the piano strings to vibrate
17. noun. the part of a gunlock that strikes the percussion cap when the trigger is pulled

    Synonyms: cock

18. noun. a heavy metal sphere attached to a flexible wire; used in the hammer throw
19. noun. a light drumstick with a rounded head that is used to strike such percussion instruments as chimes, kettledrums, marimbas, glockenspiels, etc.

    Synonyms: mallet

20. noun. the ossicle attached to the eardrum

    Synonyms: malleus

21. verb. beat with or as if with a hammer

    "hammer the metal flat"

22. verb. create by hammering

    "hammer the silver into a bowl"

    "forge a pair of tongues"

    Synonyms: forge

Synonyms

hammering, pound, pounding, cock, mallet, malleus, forge

Common word forms

hammers, hammered, hammerer, hammering, hammerable, hammerless

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