hammer

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I once tried to insert a screw using a hammer.

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Quick take

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

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of hammer gathered in one view.

noun

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

noun

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

noun

the ossicle attached to the eardrum

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for hammer.

noun

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

noun

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

noun

the ossicle attached to the eardrum

noun

a light drumstick with a rounded head that is used to strike such percussion instruments as chimes, kettledrums, marimbas, glockenspiels, etc.

noun

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

noun

a striker that is covered in felt and that causes the piano strings to vibrate

noun

a power tool for drilling rocks

noun

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

beat with or as if with a hammer; "hammer the metal flat"

verb

create by hammering; "hammer the silver into a bowl"; "forge a pair of tongues"

Example sentences

I once tried to insert a screw using a hammer.

And if you hammer this sort of thing down, you essentially kill the web.

What a wonderful tool a double-clawed hammer would be!

No matter how much you take a hammer to that bridge it is never going to look like a 57 chevy.

No matter where the hammer slams down on the cam, it is guaranteed to reset to the same place.

As the cam rotates, it slowly raises up the hammer, which has tension provided by the spring.

Does any of this make sense?- Yeah, hammer was really useful to me when I hanged that picture on the wall last year.

If you measure something you do not like, the immediate response should not be to grab a hammer and try to kill it.

Throwing someone in prison should require demonstrable harm worthy of the state swinging its hammer.

Congress has the Big Data hammer out, and it's not afraid to use it on whatever political cause of the week makes them upset.

When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a distributed decision problem...But seriously, this would not scale.

Like MS, they'll probably get away with this in the US because Google is US based and they let businesses get away with anything, but the EU will hammer them.

Scammers will just back up, look at their entire operation, and hammer away again with 300 new accounts so all you've accomplished is pissing off customers who want to do business with you.

A hammer, represented as the horizontal pin, is released from a caught position with spring tension on it, which slams into the heart cam and forces it to reset to a predetermined position.

Not so much any more, I should quit it!- I'm past hammers - electric drill with screws can do 90% of it does and for the 10% it does not I should really re-assess whether I'm doing the right thing in the first place.- I tried to make a cereal with a hammer this morning, but it did not work!

Remember the $1 million-plus raised for hurricane relief raised after Katrina that PayPal threw down the drain by declaring that they wouldn't release it until long after it mattered?If PayPal has good reasons not to accept donations and crowdfunding, they shouldn't fucking accept donations or crowdfunding, instead of letting users get in deep enough to get screwed before dropping the hammer.