hammer

IPA: hˈæmɝ

A tool with a heavy head and a handle used for pounding.
The act of using a hammer to hit something.
(firearms) A moving part of a firearm that strikes the firing pin to discharge a gun.
(anatomy) The malleus, a small bone of the middle ear.
(music) In a piano or dulcimer, a piece of wood covered in felt that strikes the string.
(sports) A device made of a heavy steel ball attached to a length of wire, and used for throwing.
(curling) The last stone in an end.
(frisbee) A frisbee throwing style in which the disc is held upside-down with a forehand grip and thrown above the head.
Part of a clock that strikes upon a bell to indicate the hour.
One who, or that which, smites or shatters.
(motor racing) The accelerator pedal.
(soccer) someone connected with West Ham Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.
A surname.
(journalism) Ellipsis of hammer headline. [A brief larger headline above a smaller main headline.]

To strike repeatedly with a hammer, some other implement, the fist, etc.
To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.
(figuratively) To emphasize a point repeatedly.
(sports, etc.) To hit particularly hard.
(cycling, intransitive, slang) To ride very fast.
(intransitive) To strike internally, as if hit by a hammer.
(transitive, slang, figuratively, sports) To defeat (a person, a team) resoundingly
(transitive, slang, computing) To make high demands on (a system or service).
(transitive, finance) To declare (a person) a defaulter on the stock exchange.
(transitive, finance) To beat down the price of (a stock), or depress (a market).
(sex, transitive, colloquial) To have hard sex with.

Examples of "hammer" in Sentences

When building a house, a hammer is an important tool.
Sounds like the hammer is a much better tool than kissing but like Carter and Clinton did.
But at some point, doesn't it make sense to ask if dropping that kind of hammer is equal to the offense?
At arrow number 3 the stock comes down to touch the 20 day moving average intra day but bounces strongly and closes nearly positive in what we call a hammer candle.
Page 168 the queen's work-box, and, in defiance of all my efforts to prevent him, he seized one piece, which he called a hammer, and began violently knocking the table with it.
Union officials said the Government's defence cuts were to blame for the job losses, which they described as a "hammer blow" to manufacturing, as orders for the Eurofighter Typhoon combat jet slow down.