hammer
/ˈhæmɚ/ noun B1- A tool with a heavy head and a handle used for pounding. · Bobby used a hammer and nails to fix the two planks together.
- The act of using a hammer to hit something. · The nail is too loose—give it a hammer.
- The malleus, a small bone of the middle ear.
- 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
- A device made of a heavy steel ball attached to a length of wire, and used for throwing.
- The last stone in an end.
- A frisbee throw in which the disc is held upside-down with a forehand grip and thrown forwards above the head.
- Part of a clock that strikes upon a bell to indicate the hour.
Plural hammers
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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It was a good-sized hammer which had been lying on the rug in front of the fireplace—a substantial, workmanlike hammer.
That accounts for the hammer.”
“Well, I first had the hammer examined.
Douglas defended himself with the hammer, he might have left his mark upon the murderer before he dropped it on the mat.
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