Hammernoun

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  ball-gamesgameshobbiessomeone connected with West Ham Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.

Hammername

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  A surname.

hammernoun/ˈhæmə/

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  A tool with a heavy head and a handle used for pounding.

  • Bobby used a hammer and nails to fix the two planks together.
  • Men shove statues off pedestals, and use hammers and drills to destroy what’s left.
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  The act of using a hammer to hit something.

  • The nail is too loose—give it a hammer.
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  anatomymedicinesciencesThe malleus, a small bone of the middle ear.

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  entertainmentlifestylemusicIn a piano or dulcimer, a piece of wood covered in felt that strikes the string.

  • The sound the piano makes comes from the hammers striking the strings
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  hobbieslifestylesportsA device made of a heavy steel ball attached to a length of wire, and used for throwing.

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  ball-gamescurlinggamesThe last stone in an end.

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  A frisbee throw in which the disc is held upside-down with a forehand grip and thrown forwards above the head.

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  Part of a clock that strikes upon a bell to indicate the hour.

hammerverb/ˈhæmə/

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  To strike repeatedly with a hammer, some other implement, the fist, etc.

  • Tony hammered on the door to try to get him to open.
  • Fresleven - that was the fellow’s name, a Dane - thought himself wronged somehow in the bargain, so he went ashore and started to hammer the chief of the village with a stick.
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  To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.

  • hammered money
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  To emphasize a point repeatedly.

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  hobbieslifestylesportsTo hit particularly hard.

  • This time the defender was teed up by Andrew Johnson's short free-kick on the edge of the box and Baird hammered his low drive beyond Begovic's outstretched left arm and into the bottom corner, doubling his goal tally for the season and stunning the home crowd.
  • "My memory of him in the office at Peterborough was the ferocious nature of his typing, on a manual machine of course. This was long before the days of desktop publishing, and you could hear him down the corridor absolutely hammering the keyboard."
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  slangcyclinghobbieslifestyleTo ride very fast.

  • Fifteen minutes later, leaving a vapour trail of kitchen smells, I hammered into Obterre.
  • Running at line-speed, well over 100mph, it hammers through Doncaster on its way south to London.
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  To strike internally, as if hit by a hammer.

  • I could hear the engine’s valves hammering once the timing rod was thrown.
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  slanghobbieslifestylesportsTo defeat (a person, a team) resoundingly.

  • We hammered them 5-0!
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  slangcomputingengineeringmathematicsTo make high demands on (a system or service).

  • So we'll be hammering the server in an unrealistic manner, but we'll see how the additional clients affect overall performance. We'll add two, three, four, and then five clients, […]

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