hammer

1. n. An instrument for driving nails, beating metals, and the like, consisting of a head, usually of steel or iron, fixed crosswise to a handle. Source: opted

2. n. Something which in firm or action resembles the common hammer Source: opted

3. n. That part of a clock which strikes upon the bell to indicate the hour. Source: opted

4. n. The padded mallet of a piano, which strikes the wires, to produce the tones. Source: opted

5. n. The malleus. Source: opted

6. n. 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. Source: opted

7. n. Also, a person of thing that smites or shatters; as, St. Augustine was the hammer of heresies. Source: opted

8. v. t. To beat with a hammer; to beat with heavy blows; as, to hammer iron. Source: opted

9. v. t. To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating. Source: opted

10. v. t. To form in the mind; to shape by hard intellectual labor; -- usually with out. Source: opted

11. v. i. To be busy forming anything; to labor hard as if shaping something with a hammer. Source: opted

12. v. i. To strike repeated blows, literally or figuratively. Source: opted

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