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1. A hand tool with a heavy rigid head and a handle; used to deliver an impulsive force by striking
    
2. The part of a gunlock that strikes the percussion cap when the trigger is pulled
   - cock
    
3. The ossicle attached to the eardrum
   - malleus
    
4. A light drumstick with a rounded head that is used to strike such percussion instruments as chimes, kettledrums, marimbas, glockenspiels, etc.
   - mallet
    
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
   - power hammer
    
8. The act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows)
   "the sudden hammer of fists caught him off guard";
   - pound, hammering, pounding

1. Beat with or as if with a hammer
   "hammer the metal flat"
    
2. Create by hammering
   "hammer the silver into a bowl";
   - forge
    
3. [informal] Beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight
   - cream [informal], bat, clobber [informal], drub, thrash [informal], lick [informal], marmalise [Brit, informal], marmelize [Brit, informal], marmelise [Brit, informal], wipe the floor [informal], paste [informal], beat hollow [informal], whale [N. Amer, informal], marmalize [Brit, informal], smoke [N. Amer, informal], muller [Brit, informal], blow away [informal], slaughter [informal], tromp [N. Amer, informal], trounce

Derived forms: hammered, hammering, hammers

Type of: auditory ossicle, beat, beat out, blow, crush, drumstick, hand tool, power tool, shell, sports equipment, striker, trounce, vanquish

Part of: firing mechanism, gunlock, middle ear, percussion instrument, percussive instrument, piano action, tympanic cavity, tympanum

Encyclopedia: Hammer, Sir de Roburt