Dictionary Entry
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
- 1noun
An instrument for driving nails, beating metals, and the like, consisting of a head, usually of steel or iron, fixed crosswise to a handle.
- 2noun
Something which in firm or action resembles the common hammer
- 3noun
That part of a clock which strikes upon the bell to indicate the hour.
- 4noun
The padded mallet of a piano, which strikes the wires, to produce the tones.
- 5noun
The malleus.
- 6noun
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.
- 7noun
Also, a person of thing that smites or shatters; as, St. Augustine was the hammer of heresies.
- 8transitive verb
To beat with a hammer; to beat with heavy blows; as, to hammer iron.
- 9transitive verb
To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.
- 10transitive verb
To form in the mind; to shape by hard intellectual labor; -- usually with out.
- 11intransitive verb
To be busy forming anything; to labor hard as if shaping something with a hammer.
- 12intransitive verb
To strike repeated blows, literally or figuratively.
- 13noun
the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows)
"the sudden hammer of fists caught him off guard"
"the pounding of feet on the hallway"
- 14noun
a hand tool with a heavy rigid head and a handle; used to deliver an impulsive force by striking
- 15noun
a power tool for drilling rocks
- 16noun
a striker that is covered in felt and that causes the piano strings to vibrate
- 17noun
the part of a gunlock that strikes the percussion cap when the trigger is pulled
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- 18noun
a heavy metal sphere attached to a flexible wire; used in the hammer throw
- 19noun
a light drumstick with a rounded head that is used to strike such percussion instruments as chimes, kettledrums, marimbas, glockenspiels, etc.
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- 20noun
the ossicle attached to the eardrum
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- 21verb
beat with or as if with a hammer
"hammer the metal flat"
- 22verb
create by hammering
"hammer the silver into a bowl"
"forge a pair of tongues"
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