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Hammer

Definition: Hammer

Hammer

Noun

1. The part of a gunlock that strikes the percussion cap when the trigger is pulled.

2. A hand tool with a heavy rigid head and a handle; used to deliver an impulsive force by striking.

3. An athletic competition in which a heavy metal ball that is attached to a flexible wire is hurled as far as possible.

4. The ossicle attached to the eardrum.

5. A heavy metal sphere attached to a flexible wire; used in the hammer throw.

6. A striker that is covered in felt and that causes the piano strings to vibrate.

7. A power tool for drilling rocks.

8. A small mallet used by a presiding officer or a judge.

9. The act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows); "the sudden hammer of fists caught him off guard"; "the pounding of feet on the hallway".

Verb

1. Beat with or as if with a hammer.

2. Of metals.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "hammer" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Etymology: Hammer \Ham"mer\, noun. [Old English hamer, Anglo-Saxon hamer, hamor; akin to Dutch hamer, German & Danish hammer, Swedish hammare, Icelandic hamarr, hammer, crag, and perhaps to Greek anvil, Sanskrit stone.]. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Hammer

DomainDefinition

Computing

Hammer vt. Commonwealth hackish syn. for bang on. Source: Jargon File.

19th Century Satire

A small, busy implement carried by blacksmiths, geologists and Knockers for breaking iron, rock or friendship. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904.

Bible

Hammer (1.) Heb. pattish, used by gold-beaters (Isa. 41:7) and by quarry-men (Jer. 23:29). Metaphorically of Babylon (Jer. 50:23) or Nebuchadnezzar. (2.) Heb. makabah, a stone-cutter's mallet (1 Kings 6:7), or of any workman (Judg. 4:21; Isa. 44:12). (3.) Heb. halmuth, a poetical word for a workman's hammer, found only in Judg. 5:26, where it denotes the mallet with which the pins of the tent of the nomad are driven into the ground. (4.) Heb. mappets, rendered "battle-axe" in Jer. 51:20. This was properly a "mace," which is thus described by Rawlinson: "The Assyrian mace was a short, thin weapon, and must either have been made of a very tough wood or (and this is more probable) of metal. It had an ornamented head, which was sometimes very beautifully modelled, and generally a strap or string at the lower end by which it could be grasped with greater firmness." Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary.

Dream Interpretation

To dream of seeing a hammer, denotes you will have some discouraging obstacles to overcome in order to establish firmly your fortune. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....

Health

The largest of the three ossicles of the ear. (references)

Industry

Defective surface of sheet, rolled or toughened glass caused by depressions, small in area and depth, which give the surface a hammered appearance. Source: European Union. (references)

Literature

Hammer (Anglo-Saxon, hamer.)
(1) Pierre d'Ailly, Le Marteau des Hérétiques, president of the council that condemned John Huss. (1350-1425.)
(2) Judas Asmonæus, surnamed Maccabæus, "the hammer." (B.C. 166-136.)
(3) St. Augustine is called by Hakewell "That renowned pillar of truth and hammer of heresies." (B.C. 395-430.)
(4) John Faber, surnamed Malleus Hereticorum, from the title of one of his works. (1470-1541.)
(5) St. Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Malleus Arianorum. (350-367.)
(6) Charles Martel. (689-741.)
"On prétend qu'on lui donna le surnom de Martel, parcequ'il avait écrasé comme avec un marteau les Sarrasins, qui, sous la conduite d'Abdérame, avaient envahi la France." - Bouillet. Dictionnaire Universel, etc.
Hammer
PHRASES AND PROVERBS.
Gone to the hammer. Applied to goods sent to a sale by auction; the auctioneer giving a rap with a small hammer when a lot is sold, to intimate that there is an end to the bidding.
They live hammer and tongs. Are always quarrelling. They beat each other like hammers, and are as "cross as the tongs."
"Both parties went at it hammer and tongs; and hit one another anywhere and with anything." - James Payn.
To sell under the hammer. To sell by auction. (See above.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Mining

A. Term for drive hammer, a heavy sleeve-shaped weight used for driving drill pipe or casing into overburden or soft rock b. To pound or drive with pilehammerlike blows delivered by a drivehammer. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Hammer

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

A hammer is a tool meant to deliver blows to a target, causing it to move or deform. The most common uses are for driving nails, fitting parts, and breaking up objects. Hammers are often designed for a specific purpose, and so their design varies quite a lot. Usual features are a handle and a head, with the balance firmly in the head. The hammer is used in many professions, and is one of the most basic tools along with the knife.

Like the knife (and almost all tools), the hammer is also a weapon. The concept of putting a handle on a weight to make it more convenient to use may well have led to the very first tools or weapons ever invented.

The use of a hammer to fix broken machinery is jokingly referred to as percussive maintenance.

Well-known forms include:

See also: Club, Chisel, hammer throw (field sport), War hammer A hammer is a small padded stick or cane used in pairs to play the hammered dulcimer. Dulcimer hammers are made of a variety of materials, most frequently wood with a hammer head covered with a strip of leather or felt.

Also in music, hammers are felt-padded objects within a piano and similar instruments, which, when triggered by depressing a key, strike the instrument's strings. Hammer is an informal term for the malleus bone of the ear.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Hammer."

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Hammer Horror

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Hammer horror refers to horror films produced in the late 1950s through the 1970s by the British film studio Hammer Films. They made a series of horror films that were collectively known as Hammer's House of Horror.

What Vincent Price was to American International Pictures (AIP), Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee were to the Hammer studio. Hammer horror begins with the 1957 film The Curse of Frankenstein, in which Cushing played the mad doctor, and Lee the monster. The two teamed up next year for 1958's Dracula, also known as The Horror of Dracula, in which Lee played the title Count, and Cushing played Dr. Van Helsing, his nemesis.

The two were paired over the following decades quite frequently, in a series of sequels to these pictures. Lee went on to become, after Bela Lugosi, the next most famous face of Dracula. He made six more Dracula pictures for Hammer:

Later films in the series tend to turn increasingly to self-parody, though Satanic Rites rivals Russ Meyer's Beyond the Valley of the Dolls in its amusing vision of hippie jive.

Other Hammer vampire films include the Karnstein Trilogy based very loosely on J. Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla:

These films featured Polish actress Ingrid Pitt, and were somewhat daring for the time in suggesting lesbian themes.

Cushing, for his part, went on to make five more Frankenstein films for Hammer, including 1959's The Revenge of Frankenstein. Cushing also appeared in Dracula sequels without Lee, such as 1960's Brides of Dracula, in which David Peel played an intriguingly decadent Count.

Hammer also made a 1959 remake of The Mummy, with Lee as the Mummy (see The Mummy (1959 movie)). Robert Louis Stevenson's Jekyll and Hyde were visited in 1960's The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll. There was also a Hammer Phantom of the Opera starring Herbert Lom (1962).

The Hammer horror films were hardly critical favourites when they appeared; critics accused them of being over-the-top gruesome in the manner of the Grand Guignol. For viewers of the twenty-first century, used to even gorier fare, the Hammer films seem tamer, more atmospheric and camp, yet at their best they can still be truly frightening.

External link

Hammer Films' official website: http://www.hammerfilms.com/

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Hammer Horror."

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Synonyms: Hammer

Synonyms: gavel (n), hammer throw (n), hammering (n), malleus (n), pound (n), pounding (n), power hammer (n), forge (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Hammer

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Repetition

Verb: repeat, iterate, reiterate, reproduce, echo, reecho, drum, harp upon, battologize, hammer, redouble.

Stammering

Verb: stammer, stutter, hesitate, falter, hammer; balbutiate, balbucinate, haw, hum and haw, be unable to put two words together.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Hammer

English words defined with "hammer": About-sledge, air hammer, Atmospheric hammerball-peen hammer, Battering-ram, beetle, bell, blacksmith, bricklayer's hammer, Bucker, Bucking iron, Bushhammercarpenter's hammer, chime, Claw hammer, clawhammer, Clinkstone, Cushioned hammerDead-stroke hammer, Drop forging, Drop hammer, Drop presselectric hammer, Enlarging hammerFace hammer, flintlock, Flogging hammer, foliate, Foot hammer, Fore hammer, Friction drop hammerGold-beating, gong, Grand action, Gunpowder pile driverhalf hatchet, Hammer shell, Hammerable, Hammer-dressed, hammered, Hammerer, hammerhead, hammering, Hammer-lessjackhammerKevelLift hammerMalleable iron, Malleate, mallet, Martel, Martel de fer, Marteline, maulNose hammerPatent-hammered, Ped, percussor, piano action, Planish, plessor, plexor, pneumatic hammer, poleax, poleaxe, pound, poundingRaising hammer, Rebounding lockSear spring, Set hammer, Sheep's-foot, Shingling hammer, sledge, sledgehammer, Snarling iron, Stamp hammer, star drill, Steam hammer, Stone hammer, Support armstack hammer, Thor, Tilt hammer, Tilting, Tilt-mill, Trip hammer, triphammerWoolstock, Wrench hammer. (references)
Specialty definitions using "hammer": Bring to the Hammercobbing hammer, Come to the HammerDiamond Hammerhack hammer, hammer heater, Hammer of the Scotch, HAMMER OPERATOR, hand hammermason's hammer, miner's hammer, motor hammer drill, muckle hammerNasmyth hammerrawhide hammerscabbling hammer, striking hammer. (references)
Etymologies containing "hammer": Pall-mall. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Hammer" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Danish (hammer), Frisian (hammer), German (Boner, gavel, hammer, howler, mallet, Malleus, sledge), Norwegian (hammer).

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Modern Usage: Hammer

DomainUsage

Screenplays

If I ever lay my two eyes on you again, I'm gonna walk right up to you and hammer on that monkeyed skull of yours 'til it rings like a Chinese gong (His Girl Friday; writing credit: Ben Hecht; Charles MacArthur)

At that time, a friend shall lose his friend's hammer, and the young shall not know where lieth the things possessed by their fathers that their fathers put there only just the night before, about eight O'clock (Life of Brian; writing credit: Graham Chapman; John Cleese)

My new roommate showed me how to kill mice with a hammer yesterday, so between that and the general atmosphere of simmering homoeroticism, I think I'm really starting to turn around (Malcolm in the Middle; writing credit: Daniel Frenette)

By Grabthar's hammer what savings (Galaxy Quest; writing credit: David Howard)

Just like the bad guy from Lethal Weapon 2, I've got diplomatic immunity, so Hammer, you cant sue. (Family Guy; writing credit: Dolores Payás)

Lyrics

Oh, nothing but hammer to you with your only decease in me (Rock In A Hard Place (Cheshire Cat); performing artist: Aerosmith)

If you got a hammer and a vise (SECRET GARDEN; performing artist: Bruce Springsteen)

The hammer of the gods will drive our ships to new lands, (Immigrant song; performing artist: Led Zeppelin)

I'd rather be a hammer than a nail (EL CONDOR PASA (IF I COULD); performing artist: Simon and Garfunkel)

Clever

If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. (references; author: unknown)

Movie/TV Titles

Hammer (1972)

Mike Hammer (1956)

Hammer the Toff (1952)

Steam Hammer (1904)

The Hebrew Hammer (2003)

Song Titles

If I Had A Hammer (performing artist: Paul and Mary Peter)

If I Had A Hammer (performing artist: Trini Lopez)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Hammer

DomainTitle

Books

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  • Prisoner: Hammer into Anvil (reference)

  • The Hammer Dulcimer (reference)

  • Walt Michael's Hammer Dulcimer- video#2 Celtic Tunes for Hammer Dulcimer (reference)

  • Hammer - It's All Good/ The Adventures of the Funky Headhunter (reference)

  • Hammer Collection (Dracula, Prince of Darkness; Plague of the Zombies; Reptile; more) (reference)

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Music

  

High Tech

  

Consumer Goods

  • Stanley 51-402 FatMax 22-Ounce Checkered Face Framing Hammer (reference)

  • DeWalt DW566KK 7/8" SDS Plus Variable Speed Reversing Hammer Kit with Chipping Function and 5-Piece SDS Plus Bit Set (reference)

  • DeWalt DW567KK 1" SDS Plus Variable Speed Reversing Hammer Kit with Chipping Function includes 5-Piece SDS Plus Bit Set a $35.00 Value (reference)

  • DeWalt DW570K 1-1/8" SDS Hammer Kit with Chipping (reference)

  • Cobra 6000 Professional Hammer Tacker (reference)

    (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Hammer

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Photo Album: Hammer

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Group photograph of the president's cancer panel in 1982. (l-r): Dr. Elliott Stonehill, Dr. William Longmire, Armand Hammer, Dr. Harold Amos, Dr. Vincent DeVita. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

"Improvised sounding tackle", i.e. using a hammer with line attached to sound through the sea ice. In: "The South Pole", by Roald Amundsen, 1872-1928. P. 234, Volume II, Library Call Number M82.1/99 A529s. Credit: Treasures of the Library.

Hammer Creek Boat launch for dorys and raftsLower Salmon RiverCottonwood Field OfficeUCSCUpper Columbia Salmon Clearwater District. Credit: Karen Wattenmaker.

Breaching Sea Wall at Quarry Cove, using back hoe, truck, and hydralic hammer. Credit: John Craig.

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[Medicine - China: Using a hammer to heighten the effect of acupuncture]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

U.S. Army Air Forces. Regional Hospital, Hammer Field, Fresno, Ca. : Aerial view. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Underway, soon after recommissioning in 1952. Note that she still wears small hull numbers at her bow. An accoustic "hammer box" is stowed on her main deck, amidships. Credit: NAVY.

Four motor minesweepers (YMS) alongside the starboard side of USS Mindanao (ARG-3) shortly after Mount Hood blew up about 350 yards away from Mindanao's port side. These wooden minesweepers were protected from most of the direct force of the blast by Mindanao's hull, but received some damage. USS YMS-340 is second from the left. Note that her open bridge bulwarks have been blown down. Also note differing types of retracting accoustic "hammer box" mountings on the bows of these ships. Credit: NAVY.

La Touche sneezed violently as Popineau raised his hammer. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Hammer
 

"Hammer head shark" by Rushang Shah
Commentary: "Hammer Head shark at Marine World, USA."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Sounds Captioned with "Hammer".

PlayCaptionPlayCaption
Jan Hammer style piece quite typical of the mid-1980's.Jan Hammer style excerpt from the mid-1980's.
Gamelan percussion instrument being struck with hammer and muted with hand. .Blow with a hammer.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Hammer

AuthorQuotation

Froude

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge one for yourself.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In this world a man must be either anvil or hammer.

Publilius Syrus

You should hammer your iron when it is glowing hot.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: Hammer

AuthorDateQuotation

Treaty of Versailles

1919

With Poland: From the point defined above to a point to be fixed on the ground about 2 kilometres east of Lorzendorf: the fronticr as it will be fixed in accordance with Article 88 of the present Treaty; thence in a northerly direction to the point where the administrative boundary of Posnania crosses the river Bartsch: a line to be fixed on the ground leaving the following placcs in Poland: Skorischau, Reichthal, Trembatschau, Kunzendorf, Schleise, Gross Koscl, Schreibersdorf, Rippin, Furstlich-Niefken, Pawelau, Tscheschen, Konradau, Johallnisdorf, Modzenowe, Bogdaj, and in Gerrmany: Lorzendorf, Kaulwitz, Glausche, Dalbersdorf, Reesewitz, Stradam, Gross Wartenberg, Kraschen, Neu Mittelwalde, Domaslawitz, Wedelsdorf, Tscheschen Hammer; thence the administrative boundary of Posnania northwestwards to the point where it cuts the Rawitsch-Herrnstadt railway; thence to the point where the administrative boundary of Posnania cuts the Reisen-Tschirnau road: a line to be fixed on the ground passing west of Triebusch and Gabel and east of Saborwitz; thence the administrative boundary of Posnania to its junction with the eastern administrative boundary of the Kreis of Fraustadt; thence in a north-westerly direction to a point to be chosen on the road between the villages of Unruhstadt and Kopnitz: a line to be fixed on the ground passing west of Geyersdorf, Brenno, Fehlen, Altkloster, Klebel, and east of Ulbersdorf, Buchwald, Ilgen,Weine, Lupitze, Schwenten: thence in a northerly direction to the northernmost point of Lake Chlop: a line to be fixed on the ground following the median line of the lakes; the town and the station of Bentschen however (including the junction of the lines Schwiebus-Bentschen and Zullichau-Bentschen) remaining in Polish territory; thence in a north-easterly direction to the point of junction of the boundaries of the Kreise of Schwerin, Birnbaum, and Meseritz: a line to be fixed on the ground passing east of Betsche; thence in a northerly direction the boundary separating the Kreise of Schwerin and Birnbaum, then in an easterly direction the northern boundary of Posnania to the point where it cuts the river Netze; thence upstream to its confluence with the Kaddow: the course of the Netze; thence upstream to a point to be chosen about 6 kilometres southeast of Schneidemuhl: the course of the Kuddow; thence north-eastwards to the most southern point of the reentant of the northern boundary of Posnania about 5 kilometres west of Stahren: a line to be fixed on the ground leaving the SchneidemuhlKonitz railway in this area entirely in German territory; thence the boundary of Posnania north-eastwards to the point of the salient it makes about 15 kilometres east of Flatow; thence north-eastwards to the point where the river Kamionka meets the southern boundary of the Kreis of Konitz about 3 kilometres north-east of Grunau: a line to be fixed on the ground leaving the following places to Poland: Jasdrowo, Gr. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Hammer

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Fauchelevent, no longer able to breathe for the shiver that was on him, took his cold chisel and hammer, and wrenched off the top board

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

He set a nail and his hammer thundered it in.

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

Thaw with his gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Hammer

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

These bones are called the hammer (malleus), anvil (incus), and the stirrup (stapes). (references)

Tests like tapping below the knee with a rubber hammer can identify changes in reflexes. (references)

These three bones are named the malleus, incus and stapes (and are also known as the hammer, anvil and stirrup). (references)

Economic History

Angola

Flag: Two equal horizontal bands of red (top) black with a centered yellow emblem consisting of a five-pointed star within half a cogwheel crossed by a machete and hoe (in the style of a hammer and sickle). (references)

Human Rights

Paraguay

In a September report, Amnesty stated that youths were kicked, beaten, suspended upside down, had plastic bags put over their heads, beaten on the back with a hammer, and had their feet scalded. (references)

Minorities

Argentina

According to press reports, in Mar del Plata, on January 17, a Nigerian street vendor was assaulted with a hammer and robbed by soccer fans shouting racist and xenophobic insults. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

AUCTIONEER, n. The man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Hammer

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Rush Limbaugh

Jimmy Carter would have brained someone with his hammer to have the economic growth and unemployment rates we have today.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Speeches: Hammer

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

George Bush

1989-1993If you've got a hammer, find a nail.

Bill Clinton

1993-2001On the forge of common enterprise Americans of all backgrounds can hammer out a common identity.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Hammer

"Hammer" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 85.62% of the time. "Hammer" is used about 1,077 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)85.62%9227,808
Lexical Verb (infinitive)11.97%12928,132
Lexical Verb (base form)1.21%1397,576
Noun (proper)1.21%1397,576
                    Total100.00%1,077N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Hammer

The following table summarizes the usage of "hammer" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
HammerLast name7,0001,831
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Hammer

Expressions using "hammer": air hammer Atmospheric hammer between hammer and anvil blow with a hammer bricklayer's hammer bush hammer carpenter's hammer claw hammer Claw hammer coat come under hammer come under the hammer Cushioned hammer drift hammer Drop hammer electric hammer Enlarging hammer Face hammer Flogging hammer Foot hammer Fore hammer Friction drop hammer Frontal hammer geologist's hammer go at hammer and tongs go to it hammer and tongue hammer an idea into smb.'s head hammer and sickle hammer and tongs hammer at hammer away hammer blow Hammer break hammer coat hammer down hammer drill hammer face Hammer fish hammer gun hammer handle Hammer hardening hammer hog hammer home hammer in hammer into Hammer lock hammer man hammer mill hammer nose hammer on hammer or helve hammer out hammer oyster hammer palsy Hammer shell hammer smth. into shape hammer throw hammer thrower hammer throwing heavy rapping hammer helve hammer ice hammer lath hammer Lift hammer miner's hammer needle hammer nose hammer percussion hammer pick hammer pipe hammer pneumatic hammer power hammer raising hammer riveting hammer set hammer shingling hammer shipping hammer sledge hammer stamp hammer steak hammer steam hammer stone hammer tack hammer throwing the hammer Tilt hammer To bring to the hammer trip hammer under the hammer upholsterer's hammer water hammer with a sledge hammer wrench hammer yellow hammer. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "hammer": hammer-and-anvil, hammer-and-saw, hammer-and-sickle, hammer-and-tongs, Hammer-beam, hammer-beamed, hammer-beams, hammer-beat, hammer-blow, hammer-blows, hammer-cloth, Hammer-dressed, hammer-ended, hammer-footed, hammer-hammer-hammer, Hammer-harden, hammer-he, hammer-head, hammer-headed, Hammer-headed shark, hammer-in, Hammer-less, hammer-lock, hammer-man, hammer-on, hammer-ons, hammer-pick, hammer-pond, hammer-ponds, hammer-scale, Hammer-the-dispatch-box-major, hammer-throw, hammer-throwers, hammer-timbered, hammer-wielding, hammer-wrought.

Ending with "hammer": sledge-hammer.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Hammer

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

hammer

1,216

hammer message

60

cutler hammer

844

hammer dulcimer

57

mc hammer

668

hammer gel

53

hammer toe

331

jan hammer

49

hammer video

230

hammer down

48

arm hammer

203

rock hammer

48

hammer drill

140

hammer mill

46

hammer ball

136

hammer snipe

45

fart hammer

133

editor hammer valve

45

hammer strength

124

hammer head shark

45

water hammer

121

hammer auto

45

hammer sickle

108

hammer planishing

44

thors hammer

106

demolition hammer

44

sledge hammer

102

film hammer

43

war hammer

95

air hammer

43

metal hammer

92

power hammer

42

hammer lyrics mc

90

cutler hammer eaton

40

jack hammer

81

hammer head

40

cuttler hammer

75

m.c hammer

40

hammer bowling ball

67

hammer bowling

40
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Hammer

Language Translations for "hammer"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

shpartalloj (crush, discomfit, rout, scatter, shatter, smash, whitewash), rrahës i pushkës, qëlloj (batter, clip, clout, conk, discharge, fetch, flap, get, hit, impinge, knock, lay out, paddle, poke, pop, pot, pound, rifle, shoot, slap, slug, smite, strike, switch), ngulit me zor, ngul gozhdë, grushtoj (box), godas me çekiç, dërrmoj (contuse, crush, drub, grind, mangle, overcome, plough under, smash, whelm, wipe the floor with), arrij me shumë përpjekje, çok i ziles, çekiç i pjanos, çekiç (maul, weight), çekan (about-sledge, tup). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏مطرقة (beetle, clapper, drop hammer, gavel, knocker, mallet, maul, rapper), ‏مدقة (beetle, maul, pestle), ‏طرق بالمطرقة, ‏شىء يشبه المطرقة, ‏دق (beetle, chink, hammer down, knock, maul, percussion, pound, pounding, pulverization, reduce, triturate, trituration), ‏دخل بالقوة. (various references)

   

Basque

  

mailu. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

очуквам (crush, hew, knock about, lay flat), бия (bang, beat, chime, club, curry, feeze, go, hide, hit, kill, knoll, lace, lather, lay, lick, maul, palpitate, peal, pelt, pulsate, pulse, ram, ramrod, ring, rough up, shoot, strike, swingle, thrash, thresh, wallop, welt, whale, whip, whop, zap), блъскам (beat, bump up against, dash, hustle, jostle, knock, moil, pound, press, push, ram, shove, slam, smite, squash, strike, thump), забивам (drive in, embed, fix, grind into, jab, knock home, nail, plant, plunge, ram, sink, smash, stick, thrust, thrust in), зачуквам (drive, hammer in), напердашвам здравата, налагам (enforce, enjoin, force, force upon, inculcate, indicate, inflict, levy, necessitate, predicate, punish, ramrod, superimpose, thrust, thrust on, towel, wallop), петле (cockalorum, cockerel), оформявам (fashion, form, formalize, frame, jell, mould, shape), удрям (bang against, bash, beat, biff, blast, bruise, bust, catch, douse, heel, hit, impact, jam on, knap, knock, lash, lay, peg at, plump, poke, pole-ax, pound, ram, set, shoot, slam, slam on, smash, smite, strike, strike in, thunder, wallop, zap), кова (beat, forge, nail, tilt, work), чук (pounder), чукам (drive, knap, knock, rattle, scutch), чукче (Malleus), чукче на прекъсвач, ударник (striker), обявявам в несъстоятелност. (various references)

   

Catalan

  

martell. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

锤子, (mallet, pestle). (various references)

   

Cornish

  

morthol. (various references)

   

Czech

  

zatloukat, kladivo, kladívko, bušit kladivem. (various references)

   

Danish

  

hammer (driver, heavy rapping hammer, mallet). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

hameren (shingling), hamer (mallet, ossicular chain). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

martelo, marteli. (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

hamar (precipice). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

پتک (Mallet, Sledge), چکش زدن (Mallet), چکش (Mallet), چخماق , کوبیدن (Beat, Bruise, Grind, Knock, Mallet, Nail, Pash, Pound, Ram, Smite, Stave, Stub, Thrash, Thresh), سخت کوشیدن , ضربت زدن (Bob, Inflict, Jow, Sock, Strike), استخوان چکشی . (various references)

   

Finnish

  

vasara (mallet). (various references)

   

French

  

marteau (common hammerhead, hammerhead, hammerhead shark, smooth hammerhead), marteler. (various references)

   

Frisian

  

hammer. (various references)

   

German

  

hammer (Boner, gavel, howler, mallet, Malleus, sledge), hämmern (beat, belt out, clam, flatten, hammer away, hammer out, hammering, pound, pound out, pounding, throb, thump, thump out, to hammer), Anschlaghammer (jack hammer, striking hammer). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

σφύρα (boomer, brand, branding iron), σφυρίο, σφυρί. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מקבת (mallet, sledge), לחשל (forge, mould, shape, strenghten, temper), לדפוק בפטיש, פטיש, הלמן (mallet). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kalapács (dresser, fuller, gavel, mallet). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

palu (gavel). (various references)

   

Irish

  

casúr. (various references)

   

Italian

  

martello (gavel, gavels, knocker, Malleus), martelletto (gavel). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

鉄鎚 , 鉄槌 , 金槌 , ハンセン病 (employee of a messenger or delivery service, Hamburg, Hamburg steak, hamburger, hammock, hand, hand carrier, hand lotion, handbag, hand-ball, handbook, handcart, Handelsblatt, handicap, handicraft, hand-knit, handle, handler, handlift, handling, handmade, handout, handshake, handwork, handy, handy mook, humble, hunt, hunter, hunter killer, hunting, hunting cap, Hunting World, leprosy, manual forklift, oscillatory behavior of a non-converging feedback loop, pallet jack, steering wheel), (gavel, mallet, sledge). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ハンマー , つち (earth, gavel, mallet, sledge, soil), かなづち, てっつい. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

망치 (flatter). (various references)

   

Malay

  

palu. (various references)

   

Manx

  

obbraghey oard er, cur da (allow expenses, append, beat up, belabour, clock, contribute, enhance, etc, give over, hit, lash, pass over; article to trade, scold, thrash), bwoalley (assault, bang, bash, batter, beat, beat up, belabour, buffet, chime, clap, club, flap, hit, knock, mint, percussion, play, pound, pulsate, punch, rhythm, ring, rise of penis, scramble, shock, slam, slap, strike, thrash, thresh, throb, toll, wallop). (various references)

   

Maya

  

lemeb. (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

hammer. (various references)

   

Occitan

  

martèl. (various references)

   

Papago

  

shonihinakud. (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

martiu, martin. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ammerhay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

martelo (malleus, striker), martelar (bang, drum, hammering, strum, thump). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

vârî prin lovituri de ciocan, percutor (striker), lovi (assail, attack, batter, beat, befall, buffet, bump, catch, clap, crack, cuff, cut, dab, drive, drub, fib, flap, harm, hit, hurt, impact, infect, injure, jar, knock, lash, lay hands on, lunge at, Pat, put, reach, seize, shock, slam, slap, smite, spank, strike, swat, swinge, switch, tap, thrust, thump, touch, whack, whip, wipe, wound, wrong), ciocan, ciocãni (drum, knock, Peck, peen, pelt, pound, rap), ciocãnel (gavel), ciocãnaş, bocãni (clamp, knock, thump, tramp). (various references)

   

Romansch

  

martè. (various references)

   

Romany

  

chookòos. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

работать молотом, курок (dog, nab), ковать (forge, shoe), выковать (forge), вбивать (peg in/into), нанести поражение (put to the worse, row up Salt River), молоточек (trembler), молоток (gavel), молот (sledgehammer), заколачивать молот, бить по неприятелю, прибивать. (various references)

   

Scottish

  

òrd (a hammer, a mountain of rounded form). (various references)

   

Sepedi

  

amole. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

zakucavati, zakucati (knock), zabiti (drive in, pitch, pound in, sink), ukucati (drive, drive in, hammer in, type in), prikucati (nail), kladivo, čekić (gavel, malleus). (various references)

   

Shona

  

nyundo. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

martillo (firing pin, mart). (various references)

   

Sranan

  

amra. (various references)

   

Swazi

  

s-ándvo. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

hammare (mallet, Malleus), hamra (beat, drum, pound). (various references)

   

Tagalog

  

pamukpók, martílyo. (various references)

   

Thai

  

ตอก (ram, tamp), ค้อน, คันเร่ง. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

hızlı atmak (palpitate), tokmak (beetle, gavel, knob, Mall, mallet, maul, stick), tüfek horozu, işlemek (brake, brand, commit, cultivate, discourse, engrave, farm, ferry, forge, function, go, grave, handle, indwell, instil, instill, operate, penetrate, perform, perpetrate, print, process, run, sink, sink into, stamp, strike, tame, till, travel, treat, work), dövmek (bash up, baste, batter, beat, beat out, beat up, belabor, belabour, Bray, bruise, cane, castigate, chastise, club, cudgel, drub, dust smb.'s jacket, flail, flog, forge, give a beating, give smb. a thrashing, give the stick, hide, knock about, knock around, Lam, lam into, lambaste, larrup, lather, lay in, lay into, lick, Mall, maul, pelt, pound, punish, scutch, slog, sock, spifflicate, spiflicate, swage, swinge, tan, thrash, thwack, trounce, wallop, whale, whip, whop), ağır yenilgiye uğratmak, çekiçlemek (beat out), çekiçle vurmak, çekiç (mallet), çakmak (be aware of, be ploughed, be plowed, beetle, cotton on to, drive, drive in, flash, flunk, gaslighter, ground, land, lighter, pitch, ram, root, rumble, spin, stick, strike, tack, tack down, twig, understand). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

зekis, зekiз. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

молоток (gavel), прибивати (nail down). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

với tất cả sức mạnh đánh nhau kịch liệt, cừ khôi (clinking, grand, keen, stunning, walloping). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

mwrthwl, morthwylio, morthwyl, gordd (mallet), dulio (bang, beat, thump). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Hammer

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

chusi, cudebat, cusi, mallei, malleis, malleo, malleos, malleum, malleus, marcus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Bible Trace: Hammer

LanguageDateSourceProverbs Chapter 27, Verse 22
Latin405VulgateSi contuderis stultum in pila quasi tisanas feriente desuper pilo non auferetur ab eo stultitia eius
Middle English1395WyclifIf thou bete togidere a fool in a morter, as hoolid barli smytende there vp on the pestel; shal not ben take awei fro hym his folie.
Jacobean English1611King JamesThough thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
Victorian English1833WebsterThough thou shouldst bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet his foolishness will not depart from him.
Basic English1964OgdenEven if a foolish man is crushed with a hammer in a vessel among crushed grain, still his foolish ways will not go from him.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Matched Bible Translations: Hammer

LanguageProverbs Chapter 27, Verse 22
Cebuano¶ Bisan pa ikaw magadugmok sa usa ka buang sa usa ka lusong pinaagi sa usa ka alho lakip sa linubok nga trigo, Apan ang iyang binuang dili gayud mobiya gikan kaniya.
Chinese你 雖 用 杵 、 將 愚 妄 人 與 打 碎 的 麥 子 一 同 搗 在 臼 中 、 他 的 愚 妄 還 是 離 不 了 他 。
CroatianDa bezumnika stuèeš tuèkom u stupi, ne bi ga ostavila ludost njegova.
DanishOm du knuste en Dåre i Morter med Støder midt imellem Gryn, hans Dårskab veg dog ej fra ham.
DutchAl stiet gij den dwaas in een mortier met een stamper, in het midden van het gestoten graan, zijn dwaasheid zou van hem niet afwijken.
FinnishSurvo hullua huhmaressa, petkelellä surveitten seassa: ei erkane hänestä hänen hulluutensa.
FrenchQuand tu pilerais l`insensé dans un mortier, Au milieu des grains avec le pilon, Sa folie ne se séparerait pas de lui.
GermanWenn du den Narren im Mörser zerstießest mit dem Stämpel wie Grütze, so ließe doch seine Narrheit nicht von ihm.
HungarianHa megtörnéd is a bolondot mozsárban mozsártörõvel a megtört gabona között, nem távoznék el õ tõle az õ bolondsága.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hariSekalipun orang bodoh dipukul sekeras-kerasnya, tak akan lenyap kebodohannya.
Indonesian-Terjemahan LamaJikalau kiranya orang bodoh ditumbuk dalam lesung bersama-sama dengan segala beras sekalipun, maka tiada juga bodohnya akan bercerai dari padanya.
ItalianAnche se tu pestassi lo stolto nel mortaio tra i grani con il pestello, non scuoteresti da lui la sua stoltezza.
Maori¶ Ahakoa i tukua e koe te wairangi ki te tuki i roto i te kumete i waenga i nga witi pepe, e kore tona whakaarokore e riro.
NorwegianOm du støter dåren i morteren med støteren midt iblandt grynene, så viker hans dårskap allikevel ikke fra ham.
PortugueseAinda que pisasses o insensato no gral entre grãos pilados, contudo não se apartaria dele a sua estultícia.   
RumanianPe nebun chiar dacq l-ai pisa cu pisqlogul kn piuq, kn mijlocul grqunyelor, nebunia tot n`ar iewi din el. -
RussianфПМЛЙ ЗМХРПЗП Ч УФХРЕ РЕУФПН ЧНЕУФЕ У ЪЕТОПН, ОЕ ПФДЕМЙФУС ПФ ОЕЗП ЗМХРПУФШ ЕЗП.
SwedishOm du stötte den oförnuftige mortel med en stöt, bland grynen, så skulle hans oförnuft ändå gå ur honom.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Hammer

Derivations

Words beginning with "hammer": hammered, hammerer, hammerers, hammerhead, hammerheads, hammering, hammerless, hammerlock, hammerlocks, hammers, hammertoe, hammertoes. (additional references)

Words ending with "hammer": clawhammer, jackhammer, ninnyhammer, rehammer, shammer, sledgehammer, yellowhammer. (additional references)

Words containing "hammer": jackhammered, jackhammering, jackhammers, ninnyhammers, rehammered, rehammering, rehammers, shammers, sledgehammered, sledgehammering, sledgehammers, yellowhammers. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Hammer" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ahmer, Ammer, Ammir, Bammer, Haemek, Haimer, hama, Hamari, Hameh, hamir, hamme, Hammet, hammle, Hammnet, Hammou, hamner, hamor, haner, Hanmare, Hanner, heimer, Hemery, hemmor, Heymer, Hommer, humer, jamer, jammer, Kammern, Mammern. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Hammer"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "hammer" (pronounced ha"mer)
3-a" m erenamor, clamor, crammer, dammer, glamor, glamour, grammar, jammer, rammer, slammer, stammer.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Hammer

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-h-m-m-r"

-1 letter: harem, herma.

-2 letters: ahem, haem, hame, hare, harm, hear, herm, mare, ream, rhea.

-3 letters: are, arm, ear, era, hae, ham, hem, her, hmm, mae, mar, mem, rah, ram, rem.

-4 letters: ae, ah, am, ar, eh, em, er, ha, he, hm, ma, me, mm, re.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-h-m-m-r"
 

+1 letter: hammers, hammier, shammer.

 

+2 letters: hammered, hammerer, rehammer, shammers.

 

+3 letters: hammerers, hammering, hammertoe, homemaker, mythmaker, rehammers.

 

+4 letters: amphimacer, chimaerism, chromonema, clawhammer, hammerhead, hammerless, hammerlock, hammertoes, homemakers, jackhammer, matchmaker, meerschaum, mimeograph, mythmakers, rehammered, rheumatism, thermogram.

 

+5 letters: amphimacers, chambermaid, chimaerisms, hammerheads, hammerlocks, jackhammers, matchmakers, meerschaums, merchantman, merchantmen, metamorphic, mimeographs, ninnyhammer, rehammering, rheumatisms, thermograms.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Images: Digital Art
9. Sounds
10. Quotations: Familiar
11. Quotations: Historic
12. Quotations: Fiction
13. Quotations: Non-fiction
14. Quotations: Spoken
15. Quotations: Speeches
16. Usage Frequency
17. Names: Frequency
18. Expressions
19. Expressions: Internet
20. Translations: Modern
21. Translations: Ancient
22. Bible Trace
23. Derivations
24. Rhymes
25. Anagrams
26. Bibliography


  

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