Definition of "hammer" in Anglais

noun

1. A tool with a heavy head and a handle used for pounding.

   • Bobby used a hammer and nails to fix the two planks together

2. The act of using a hammer to hit something.

   • The nail is too loose—give it a hammer.

3. (anatomy) The malleus, a small bone of the middle ear.

4. (music) In a piano or dulcimer, a piece of wood covered in felt that strikes the string.

   • The sound the piano makes comes from the hammers striking the strings

5. (sports) A device made of a heavy steel ball attached to a length of wire, and used for throwing.

6. (curling) The last stone in an end.

7. (frisbee) A frisbee throw in which the disc is held upside-down with a forehand grip and thrown forwards above the head.

8. Part of a clock that strikes upon a bell to indicate the hour.

9. One who, or that which, smites or shatters.

   • St. Augustine was the hammer of heresies.

10. (journalism) Ellipsis of hammer headline.

11. (motor racing) The accelerator pedal.

12. (firearms) A moving part of a firearm that strikes the firing pin to discharge a gun.

13. (African-American Vernacular, slang, loosely) A handgun.

verb

1. To strike repeatedly with a hammer, some other implement, the fist, etc.

   • Tony hammered on the door to try to get him to open.

2. To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.

3. (figuratively) To emphasize a point repeatedly.

4. (sports, etc.) To hit particularly hard.

5. (cycling, intransitive, slang) To ride very fast.

6. (intransitive) To strike internally, as if hit by a hammer.

   • I could hear the engine’s valves hammering once the timing rod was thrown.

7. (transitive, slang, figuratively, sports) To defeat (a person, a team) resoundingly.

   • We hammered them 5-0!

8. (transitive, slang, computing) To make high demands on (a system or service).

9. (transitive, finance) To declare (a person) a defaulter on the stock exchange.

10. (transitive, finance) To beat down the price of (a stock), or depress (a market).

11. (sex, transitive, colloquial) To have hard sex with.