hammer > define

The part of a gunlock that strikes the percussion cap when the trigger is pulled.
- synonyms: cock
A hand tool with a heavy rigid head and a handle; used to deliver an impulsive force by striking.
The ossicle attached to the eardrum.
- synonyms: malleus
A light drumstick with a rounded head that is used to strike such percussion instruments as chimes, kettledrums, marimbas, glockenspiels, etc..
- synonyms: mallet
A heavy metal sphere attached to a flexible wire; used in the hammer throw.
A striker that is covered in felt and that causes the piano strings to vibrate.
A power tool for drilling rocks.
- synonyms: power hammer
The act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows. )
- usage: "the sudden hammer of fists caught him off guard"; "the pounding of feet on the hallway"
- synonyms: pound, hammering, pounding

Beat with or as if with a hammer.
- usage: "hammer the metal flat"
Create by hammering.
- usage: "hammer the silver into a bowl"; "forge a pair of tongues"
- synonyms: forge

(v.t.) To beat with a hammer; to beat with heavy blows; as, to hammer iron.
(v.i.) To be busy forming anything; to labor hard as if shaping something with a hammer.
(n.) The malleus.
(n.) The padded mallet of a piano, which strikes the wires, to produce the tones.
(n.) Also, a person of thing that smites or shatters; as, St. Augustine was the hammer of heresies.
(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.
(n.) That part of a clock which strikes upon the bell to indicate the hour.
(v.t.) To form in the mind; to shape by hard intellectual labor; -- usually with out.
(v.t.) To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.
(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.
(v.i.) To strike repeated blows, literally or figuratively.
(n.) Something which in firm or action resembles the common hammer.
(n.) A spherical weight attached to a flexible handle and hurled from a mark or ring. The weight of head and handle is usually not less than 16 pounds.

by Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Hammer is a masculine given name