How to pronounce hammer in English
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"An instrument for driving nails beating metals and the like consisting of a head usually of steel or iron fixed crosswise to a handle."
"Something which in firm or action resembles the common hammer"
"That part of a clock which strikes upon the bell to indicate the hour."
"The padded mallet of a piano which strikes the wires to produce the tones."
"The malleus."
"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."
"Also a person of thing that smites or shatters; as St. Augustine was the hammer of heresies."
"To beat with a hammer; to beat with heavy blows; as to hammer iron."
"To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating."
"To form in the mind; to shape by hard intellectual labor; -- usually with out."
"To be busy forming anything; to labor hard as if shaping something with a hammer."
"To strike repeated blows literally or figuratively."