Synonym: bang, beat, drill, drive, hit, knock, mallet, pound, repeat. Similar words: stammer, muhammad, crammed, programme, untrammeled, dimmer, summer, untrammelled. Meaning: ['hæmə(r)] n. 1. the part of a gunlock that strikes the percussion cap when the trigger is pulled 2. a hand tool with a heavy rigid head and a handle; used to deliver an impulsive force by striking 3. the ossicle attached to the eardrum 4. a heavy metal sphere attached to a flexible wire; used in the hammer throw 5. a striker that is covered in felt and that causes the piano strings to vibrate 6. a power tool for drilling rocks 7. the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows). v. 1. beat with or as if with a hammer 2. create by hammering.
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(151) At worst... well, you have to remember the hammer had a cast iron head weighing several pounds.
(152) You cannot dream yourself into a character: you must hammer and forge yourself into one. Henry David Thoreau
(153) Now move the wooden handle of the hammer gradually over the edge of the table.
(154) The tunnels were quiet during the hammer blow of 1972.
(155) In January, too, the leading figures of the Conservative party met at Selsdon in order to hammer out new policies.
(156) Member companies spent most of the first year trying to hammer out a mission and a game plan.
(157) She had laid the hammer there, after she had tried to break the tower window.
(158) Labour's energy spokesman says the decision is bad news for the consumer and a hammer blow for the coal industry.
(159) In addition, other property owned by Hammer has sold for about $ 1 million, pending court approval.
(160) The best way to do this is to wrap them in a thick layer of newspaper and hit them with a hammer.
(161) If ever a sledge hammer had been used to crack an egg, this was the time.
(162) So that and nearly 500 other lots will go under the hammer at Sotherbys tomorrow.
(163) Three Renoir paintings will come under the hammer at Sotheby's in New York.
(164) The toxic substances department must approve it and hammer out a legal agreement with the group before moving forward.
(165) A 79-YEAR-OLD man was struck with a hammer by a burglar who broke into his home, Teesside Crown Court heard yesterday.
(166) So Oxford's Lord Mayor was the first to wield the demolition hammer to help make way for a new business park.
(167) It was followed by a hammer blow that echoed like thunder through the steel hulk.
(168) Finally, in desperation, he strikes a hammer against the fuel line.
(169) Read in studio A man has foiled a raid at his local filling station despite being threatened with a hammer.
(170) The day we were going to hammer a post into the ground every three yards for the entire length of the fence.
(171) A collection of prints and paintings by Picasso came under the hammer at Sotheby's yesterday.
(172) The rest of his collection is going under the hammer.
(173) Even more recently Hammer etal measured the magnitude of faecal carbohydrate excretion in five patients with exocrine pancreatic insufficiency.
(174) New mayor Susan Hammer had to prove she could fill McEnery's shoes.
(175) Some one grasped at the side of the cart as it went past,[www.Sentencedict.com] and Arkhina smashed his fingers with a hammer.
(176) To Leeds the news must have come like a blow from a steam hammer.
(177) The children had been suffocated and Mrs Garvey hit with a hammer.
(178) Maura had seen the hammer descend on to the cartridge just as she heard Roy's voice come from the house.
(179) Or does one hammer the nails into one's own coffin?
(180) Any friction at the hammer pivot will slow down the movement of the hammer, tending to make the action sluggish.
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