hammering
noun B1- A period of being beaten or hammered. · Repeated hammerings by the smith thin the metal and make it tough.· Hearing a hammering on the door, I ran downstairs to open it.
- A dented appearance on silverware, produced by successive blows of a hammer.
- A heavy defeat.
Plural hammerings
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While I am hammering on the anvil, you sleep on the mat; and when I begin to eat after my toil, you wake up and wag your tail for food.
So they set to work in one of the big yellow rooms of the castle and worked for three days and four nights, hammering and twisting and bending and soldering and polishing and pounding at the legs and body and head of the Tin Woodman, until at last he was straightened out into his old form, and his joints worked as well as ever.
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