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Definition: Hammer |
HammerNoun1. 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. An athletic competition in which a heavy metal ball that is attached to a flexible wire is hurled as far as possible. 4. The ossicle attached to the eardrum. 5. A heavy metal sphere attached to a flexible wire; used in the hammer throw. 6. A striker that is covered in felt and that causes the piano strings to vibrate. 7. A power tool for drilling rocks. 8. A small mallet used by a presiding officer or a judge. 9. The act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows); "the sudden hammer of fists caught him off guard"; "the pounding of feet on the hallway". Verb1. Beat with or as if with a hammer. 2. Of metals. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "hammer" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Etymology: Hammer \Ham"mer\, noun. [Old English hamer, Anglo-Saxon hamer, hamor; akin to Dutch hamer, German & Danish hammer, Swedish hammare, Icelandic hamarr, hammer, crag, and perhaps to Greek anvil, Sanskrit stone.]. (references) |
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Computing | Hammer vt. Commonwealth hackish syn. for bang on. Source: Jargon File. |
19th Century Satire | A small, busy implement carried by blacksmiths, geologists and Knockers for breaking iron, rock or friendship. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. |
Bible | Hammer (1.) Heb. pattish, used by gold-beaters (Isa. 41:7) and by quarry-men (Jer. 23:29). Metaphorically of Babylon (Jer. 50:23) or Nebuchadnezzar. (2.) Heb. makabah, a stone-cutter's mallet (1 Kings 6:7), or of any workman (Judg. 4:21; Isa. 44:12). (3.) Heb. halmuth, a poetical word for a workman's hammer, found only in Judg. 5:26, where it denotes the mallet with which the pins of the tent of the nomad are driven into the ground. (4.) Heb. mappets, rendered "battle-axe" in Jer. 51:20. This was properly a "mace," which is thus described by Rawlinson: "The Assyrian mace was a short, thin weapon, and must either have been made of a very tough wood or (and this is more probable) of metal. It had an ornamented head, which was sometimes very beautifully modelled, and generally a strap or string at the lower end by which it could be grasped with greater firmness." Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of seeing a hammer, denotes you will have some discouraging obstacles to overcome in order to establish firmly your fortune. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Health | The largest of the three ossicles of the ear. (references) |
Industry | Defective surface of sheet, rolled or toughened glass caused by depressions, small in area and depth, which give the surface a hammered appearance. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Hammer (Anglo-Saxon, hamer.) (1) Pierre d'Ailly, Le Marteau des Hérétiques, president of the council that condemned John Huss. (1350-1425.) (2) Judas Asmonæus, surnamed Maccabæus, "the hammer." (B.C. 166-136.) (3) St. Augustine is called by Hakewell "That renowned pillar of truth and hammer of heresies." (B.C. 395-430.) (4) John Faber, surnamed Malleus Hereticorum, from the title of one of his works. (1470-1541.) (5) St. Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Malleus Arianorum. (350-367.) (6) Charles Martel. (689-741.) "On prétend qu'on lui donna le surnom de Martel, parcequ'il avait écrasé comme avec un marteau les Sarrasins, qui, sous la conduite d'Abdérame, avaient envahi la France." - Bouillet. Dictionnaire Universel, etc. Hammer PHRASES AND PROVERBS. Gone to the hammer. Applied to goods sent to a sale by auction; the auctioneer giving a rap with a small hammer when a lot is sold, to intimate that there is an end to the bidding. They live hammer and tongs. Are always quarrelling. They beat each other like hammers, and are as "cross as the tongs." "Both parties went at it hammer and tongs; and hit one another anywhere and with anything." - James Payn. To sell under the hammer. To sell by auction. (See above.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mining | A. Term for drive hammer, a heavy sleeve-shaped weight used for driving drill pipe or casing into overburden or soft rock b. To pound or drive with pilehammerlike blows delivered by a drivehammer. (references) |
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A hammer is a tool meant to deliver blows to a target, causing it to move or deform. The most common uses are for driving nails, fitting parts, and breaking up objects. Hammers are often designed for a specific purpose, and so their design varies quite a lot. Usual features are a handle and a head, with the balance firmly in the head. The hammer is used in many professions, and is one of the most basic tools along with the knife.
Like the knife (and almost all tools), the hammer is also a weapon. The concept of putting a handle on a weight to make it more convenient to use may well have led to the very first tools or weapons ever invented.
The use of a hammer to fix broken machinery is jokingly referred to as percussive maintenance.
Well-known forms include:
See also: Club, Chisel, hammer throw (field sport), War hammer A hammer is a small padded stick or cane used in pairs to play the hammered dulcimer. Dulcimer hammers are made of a variety of materials, most frequently wood with a hammer head covered with a strip of leather or felt.
- Carpenter's hammer, including framing hammer and claw hammer
- Mechanic's hammer, including ball-peen hammer
- Construction hammer, including sledgehammer
- Stonemason's or club hammer
- Steam hammer
- Mallet
Also in music, hammers are felt-padded objects within a piano and similar instruments, which, when triggered by depressing a key, strike the instrument's strings. Hammer is an informal term for the malleus bone of the ear.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Hammer."
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Hammer horror refers to horror films produced in the late 1950s through the 1970s by the British film studio Hammer Films. They made a series of horror films that were collectively known as Hammer's House of Horror.What Vincent Price was to American International Pictures (AIP), Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee were to the Hammer studio. Hammer horror begins with the 1957 film The Curse of Frankenstein, in which Cushing played the mad doctor, and Lee the monster. The two teamed up next year for 1958's Dracula, also known as The Horror of Dracula, in which Lee played the title Count, and Cushing played Dr. Van Helsing, his nemesis.
The two were paired over the following decades quite frequently, in a series of sequels to these pictures. Lee went on to become, after Bela Lugosi, the next most famous face of Dracula. He made six more Dracula pictures for Hammer:
Later films in the series tend to turn increasingly to self-parody, though Satanic Rites rivals Russ Meyer's Beyond the Valley of the Dolls in its amusing vision of hippie jive.
- Dracula, Prince of Darkness, 1966
- Dracula Has Risen From the Grave, 1968
- Taste the Blood of Dracula, 1969
- Scars of Dracula, 1970
- Dracula AD 1972, 1972
- The Satanic Rites of Dracula, 1973
Other Hammer vampire films include the Karnstein Trilogy based very loosely on J. Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla:
These films featured Polish actress Ingrid Pitt, and were somewhat daring for the time in suggesting lesbian themes.
- The Vampire Lovers, 1970
- The Vampire Lovers, 1971
- Twins of Evil, 1972
Cushing, for his part, went on to make five more Frankenstein films for Hammer, including 1959's The Revenge of Frankenstein. Cushing also appeared in Dracula sequels without Lee, such as 1960's Brides of Dracula, in which David Peel played an intriguingly decadent Count.
Hammer also made a 1959 remake of The Mummy, with Lee as the Mummy (see The Mummy (1959 movie)). Robert Louis Stevenson's Jekyll and Hyde were visited in 1960's The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll. There was also a Hammer Phantom of the Opera starring Herbert Lom (1962).
The Hammer horror films were hardly critical favourites when they appeared; critics accused them of being over-the-top gruesome in the manner of the Grand Guignol. For viewers of the twenty-first century, used to even gorier fare, the Hammer films seem tamer, more atmospheric and camp, yet at their best they can still be truly frightening.
External link
Hammer Films' official website: http://www.hammerfilms.com/
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Hammer Horror."
Synonyms: HammerSynonyms: gavel (n), hammer throw (n), hammering (n), malleus (n), pound (n), pounding (n), power hammer (n), forge (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Repetition | Verb: repeat, iterate, reiterate, reproduce, echo, reecho, drum, harp upon, battologize, hammer, redouble. |
Stammering | Verb: stammer, stutter, hesitate, falter, hammer; balbutiate, balbucinate, haw, hum and haw, be unable to put two words together. |
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Screenplays | If I ever lay my two eyes on you again, I'm gonna walk right up to you and hammer on that monkeyed skull of yours 'til it rings like a Chinese gong (His Girl Friday; writing credit: Ben Hecht; Charles MacArthur) At that time, a friend shall lose his friend's hammer, and the young shall not know where lieth the things possessed by their fathers that their fathers put there only just the night before, about eight O'clock (Life of Brian; writing credit: Graham Chapman; John Cleese) My new roommate showed me how to kill mice with a hammer yesterday, so between that and the general atmosphere of simmering homoeroticism, I think I'm really starting to turn around (Malcolm in the Middle; writing credit: Daniel Frenette) By Grabthar's hammer what savings (Galaxy Quest; writing credit: David Howard) Just like the bad guy from Lethal Weapon 2, I've got diplomatic immunity, so Hammer, you cant sue. (Family Guy; writing credit: Dolores Payás) | |
Lyrics | Oh, nothing but hammer to you with your only decease in me (Rock In A Hard Place (Cheshire Cat); performing artist: Aerosmith) If you got a hammer and a vise (SECRET GARDEN; performing artist: Bruce Springsteen) The hammer of the gods will drive our ships to new lands, (Immigrant song; performing artist: Led Zeppelin) I'd rather be a hammer than a nail (EL CONDOR PASA (IF I COULD); performing artist: Simon and Garfunkel) | |
Clever | If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Hammer (1972) Mike Hammer (1956) Hammer the Toff (1952) Steam Hammer (1904) The Hebrew Hammer (2003) | |
Song Titles | If I Had A Hammer (performing artist: Paul and Mary Peter) If I Had A Hammer (performing artist: Trini Lopez) | |
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Group photograph of the president's cancer panel in 1982. (l-r): Dr. Elliott Stonehill, Dr. William Longmire, Armand Hammer, Dr. Harold Amos, Dr. Vincent DeVita. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. | ![]() | "Improvised sounding tackle", i.e. using a hammer with line attached to sound through the sea ice. In: "The South Pole", by Roald Amundsen, 1872-1928. P. 234, Volume II, Library Call Number M82.1/99 A529s. Credit: Treasures of the Library. | |
Hammer Creek Boat launch for dorys and raftsLower Salmon RiverCottonwood Field OfficeUCSCUpper Columbia Salmon Clearwater District. Credit: Karen Wattenmaker. | Breaching Sea Wall at Quarry Cove, using back hoe, truck, and hydralic hammer. Credit: John Craig. | ||
![]() | William J. Hammer;10/15/1919;{10.167/1}. | ![]() | [Medicine - China: Using a hammer to heighten the effect of acupuncture]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces. Regional Hospital, Hammer Field, Fresno, Ca. : Aerial view. Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ![]() | Underway, soon after recommissioning in 1952. Note that she still wears small hull numbers at her bow. An accoustic "hammer box" is stowed on her main deck, amidships. Credit: NAVY. |
![]() | Four motor minesweepers (YMS) alongside the starboard side of USS Mindanao (ARG-3) shortly after Mount Hood blew up about 350 yards away from Mindanao's port side. These wooden minesweepers were protected from most of the direct force of the blast by Mindanao's hull, but received some damage. USS YMS-340 is second from the left. Note that her open bridge bulwarks have been blown down. Also note differing types of retracting accoustic "hammer box" mountings on the bows of these ships. Credit: NAVY. | ![]() | La Touche sneezed violently as Popineau raised his hammer. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Hammer head shark" by Rushang Shah Commentary: "Hammer Head shark at Marine World, USA." |
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| Jan Hammer style piece quite typical of the mid-1980's. | Jan Hammer style excerpt from the mid-1980's. | ||
| Gamelan percussion instrument being struck with hammer and muted with hand. . | Blow with a hammer. | ||
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Froude | You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge one for yourself. |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | In this world a man must be either anvil or hammer. |
Publilius Syrus | You should hammer your iron when it is glowing hot. |
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Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | With Poland: From the point defined above to a point to be fixed on the ground about 2 kilometres east of Lorzendorf: the fronticr as it will be fixed in accordance with Article 88 of the present Treaty; thence in a northerly direction to the point where the administrative boundary of Posnania crosses the river Bartsch: a line to be fixed on the ground leaving the following placcs in Poland: Skorischau, Reichthal, Trembatschau, Kunzendorf, Schleise, Gross Koscl, Schreibersdorf, Rippin, Furstlich-Niefken, Pawelau, Tscheschen, Konradau, Johallnisdorf, Modzenowe, Bogdaj, and in Gerrmany: Lorzendorf, Kaulwitz, Glausche, Dalbersdorf, Reesewitz, Stradam, Gross Wartenberg, Kraschen, Neu Mittelwalde, Domaslawitz, Wedelsdorf, Tscheschen Hammer; thence the administrative boundary of Posnania northwestwards to the point where it cuts the Rawitsch-Herrnstadt railway; thence to the point where the administrative boundary of Posnania cuts the Reisen-Tschirnau road: a line to be fixed on the ground passing west of Triebusch and Gabel and east of Saborwitz; thence the administrative boundary of Posnania to its junction with the eastern administrative boundary of the Kreis of Fraustadt; thence in a north-westerly direction to a point to be chosen on the road between the villages of Unruhstadt and Kopnitz: a line to be fixed on the ground passing west of Geyersdorf, Brenno, Fehlen, Altkloster, Klebel, and east of Ulbersdorf, Buchwald, Ilgen,Weine, Lupitze, Schwenten: thence in a northerly direction to the northernmost point of Lake Chlop: a line to be fixed on the ground following the median line of the lakes; the town and the station of Bentschen however (including the junction of the lines Schwiebus-Bentschen and Zullichau-Bentschen) remaining in Polish territory; thence in a north-easterly direction to the point of junction of the boundaries of the Kreise of Schwerin, Birnbaum, and Meseritz: a line to be fixed on the ground passing east of Betsche; thence in a northerly direction the boundary separating the Kreise of Schwerin and Birnbaum, then in an easterly direction the northern boundary of Posnania to the point where it cuts the river Netze; thence upstream to its confluence with the Kaddow: the course of the Netze; thence upstream to a point to be chosen about 6 kilometres southeast of Schneidemuhl: the course of the Kuddow; thence north-eastwards to the most southern point of the reentant of the northern boundary of Posnania about 5 kilometres west of Stahren: a line to be fixed on the ground leaving the SchneidemuhlKonitz railway in this area entirely in German territory; thence the boundary of Posnania north-eastwards to the point of the salient it makes about 15 kilometres east of Flatow; thence north-eastwards to the point where the river Kamionka meets the southern boundary of the Kreis of Konitz about 3 kilometres north-east of Grunau: a line to be fixed on the ground leaving the following places to Poland: Jasdrowo, Gr. (reference) |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Fauchelevent, no longer able to breathe for the shiver that was on him, took his cold chisel and hammer, and wrenched off the top board |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | He set a nail and his hammer thundered it in. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | Thaw with his gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. |
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Health | These bones are called the hammer (malleus), anvil (incus), and the stirrup (stapes). (references) | |
Tests like tapping below the knee with a rubber hammer can identify changes in reflexes. (references) | ||
These three bones are named the malleus, incus and stapes (and are also known as the hammer, anvil and stirrup). (references) | ||
Economic History | Angola | Flag: Two equal horizontal bands of red (top) black with a centered yellow emblem consisting of a five-pointed star within half a cogwheel crossed by a machete and hoe (in the style of a hammer and sickle). (references) |
Human Rights | Paraguay | In a September report, Amnesty stated that youths were kicked, beaten, suspended upside down, had plastic bags put over their heads, beaten on the back with a hammer, and had their feet scalded. (references) |
Minorities | Argentina | According to press reports, in Mar del Plata, on January 17, a Nigerian street vendor was assaulted with a hammer and robbed by soccer fans shouting racist and xenophobic insults. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | AUCTIONEER, n. The man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue. |
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Rush Limbaugh | Jimmy Carter would have brained someone with his hammer to have the economic growth and unemployment rates we have today. |
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George Bush | 1989-1993 | If you've got a hammer, find a nail. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | On the forge of common enterprise Americans of all backgrounds can hammer out a common identity. |
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| "Hammer" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 85.62% of the time. "Hammer" is used about 1,077 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 85.62% | 922 | 7,808 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 11.97% | 129 | 28,132 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.21% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.21% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,077 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "hammer" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Hammer | Last name | 7,000 | 1,831 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "hammer": air hammer ♦ Atmospheric hammer ♦ between hammer and anvil ♦ blow with a hammer ♦ bricklayer's hammer ♦ bush hammer ♦ carpenter's hammer ♦ claw hammer ♦ Claw hammer coat ♦ come under hammer ♦ come under the hammer ♦ Cushioned hammer ♦ drift hammer ♦ Drop hammer ♦ electric hammer ♦ Enlarging hammer ♦ Face hammer ♦ Flogging hammer ♦ Foot hammer ♦ Fore hammer ♦ Friction drop hammer ♦ Frontal hammer ♦ geologist's hammer ♦ go at hammer and tongs ♦ go to it hammer and tongue ♦ hammer an idea into smb.'s head ♦ hammer and sickle ♦ hammer and tongs ♦ hammer at ♦ hammer away ♦ hammer blow ♦ Hammer break ♦ hammer coat ♦ hammer down ♦ hammer drill ♦ hammer face ♦ Hammer fish ♦ hammer gun ♦ hammer handle ♦ Hammer hardening ♦ hammer hog ♦ hammer home ♦ hammer in ♦ hammer into ♦ Hammer lock ♦ hammer man ♦ hammer mill ♦ hammer nose ♦ hammer on ♦ hammer or helve ♦ hammer out ♦ hammer oyster ♦ hammer palsy ♦ Hammer shell ♦ hammer smth. into shape ♦ hammer throw ♦ hammer thrower ♦ hammer throwing ♦ heavy rapping hammer ♦ helve hammer ♦ ice hammer ♦ lath hammer ♦ Lift hammer ♦ miner's hammer ♦ needle hammer ♦ nose hammer ♦ percussion hammer ♦ pick hammer ♦ pipe hammer ♦ pneumatic hammer ♦ power hammer ♦ raising hammer ♦ riveting hammer ♦ set hammer ♦ shingling hammer ♦ shipping hammer ♦ sledge hammer ♦ stamp hammer ♦ steak hammer ♦ steam hammer ♦ stone hammer ♦ tack hammer ♦ throwing the hammer ♦ Tilt hammer ♦ To bring to the hammer ♦ trip hammer ♦ under the hammer ♦ upholsterer's hammer ♦ water hammer ♦ with a sledge hammer ♦ wrench hammer ♦ yellow hammer. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "hammer": hammer-and-anvil, hammer-and-saw, hammer-and-sickle, hammer-and-tongs, Hammer-beam, hammer-beamed, hammer-beams, hammer-beat, hammer-blow, hammer-blows, hammer-cloth, Hammer-dressed, hammer-ended, hammer-footed, hammer-hammer-hammer, Hammer-harden, hammer-he, hammer-head, hammer-headed, Hammer-headed shark, hammer-in, Hammer-less, hammer-lock, hammer-man, hammer-on, hammer-ons, hammer-pick, hammer-pond, hammer-ponds, hammer-scale, Hammer-the-dispatch-box-major, hammer-throw, hammer-throwers, hammer-timbered, hammer-wielding, hammer-wrought. | |
Ending with "hammer": sledge-hammer. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
hammer | 1,216 | hammer message | 60 |
cutler hammer | 844 | hammer dulcimer | 57 |
mc hammer | 668 | hammer gel | 53 |
hammer toe | 331 | jan hammer | 49 |
hammer video | 230 | hammer down | 48 |
arm hammer | 203 | rock hammer | 48 |
hammer drill | 140 | hammer mill | 46 |
hammer ball | 136 | hammer snipe | 45 |
fart hammer | 133 | editor hammer valve | 45 |
hammer strength | 124 | hammer head shark | 45 |
water hammer | 121 | hammer auto | 45 |
hammer sickle | 108 | hammer planishing | 44 |
thors hammer | 106 | demolition hammer | 44 |
sledge hammer | 102 | film hammer | 43 |
war hammer | 95 | air hammer | 43 |
metal hammer | 92 | power hammer | 42 |
hammer lyrics mc | 90 | cutler hammer eaton | 40 |
jack hammer | 81 | hammer head | 40 |
cuttler hammer | 75 | m.c hammer | 40 |
hammer bowling ball | 67 | hammer bowling | 40 |
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| Language | Translations for "hammer"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shpartalloj (crush, discomfit, rout, scatter, shatter, smash, whitewash), rrahës i pushkës, qëlloj (batter, clip, clout, conk, discharge, fetch, flap, get, hit, impinge, knock, lay out, paddle, poke, pop, pot, pound, rifle, shoot, slap, slug, smite, strike, switch), ngulit me zor, ngul gozhdë, grushtoj (box), godas me çekiç, dërrmoj (contuse, crush, drub, grind, mangle, overcome, plough under, smash, whelm, wipe the floor with), arrij me shumë përpjekje, çok i ziles, çekiç i pjanos, çekiç (maul, weight), çekan (about-sledge, tup). (various references) | |
Arabic | مطرقة (beetle, clapper, drop hammer, gavel, knocker, mallet, maul, rapper), مدقة (beetle, maul, pestle), طرق بالمطرقة, شىء يشبه المطرقة, دق (beetle, chink, hammer down, knock, maul, percussion, pound, pounding, pulverization, reduce, triturate, trituration), دخل بالقوة. (various references) | |
Basque | mailu. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | очуквам (crush, hew, knock about, lay flat), бия (bang, beat, chime, club, curry, feeze, go, hide, hit, kill, knoll, lace, lather, lay, lick, maul, palpitate, peal, pelt, pulsate, pulse, ram, ramrod, ring, rough up, shoot, strike, swingle, thrash, thresh, wallop, welt, whale, whip, whop, zap), блъскам (beat, bump up against, dash, hustle, jostle, knock, moil, pound, press, push, ram, shove, slam, smite, squash, strike, thump), забивам (drive in, embed, fix, grind into, jab, knock home, nail, plant, plunge, ram, sink, smash, stick, thrust, thrust in), зачуквам (drive, hammer in), напердашвам здравата, налагам (enforce, enjoin, force, force upon, inculcate, indicate, inflict, levy, necessitate, predicate, punish, ramrod, superimpose, thrust, thrust on, towel, wallop), петле (cockalorum, cockerel), оформявам (fashion, form, formalize, frame, jell, mould, shape), удрям (bang against, bash, beat, biff, blast, bruise, bust, catch, douse, heel, hit, impact, jam on, knap, knock, lash, lay, peg at, plump, poke, pole-ax, pound, ram, set, shoot, slam, slam on, smash, smite, strike, strike in, thunder, wallop, zap), кова (beat, forge, nail, tilt, work), чук (pounder), чукам (drive, knap, knock, rattle, scutch), чукче (Malleus), чукче на прекъсвач, ударник (striker), обявявам в несъстоятелност. (various references) | |
Catalan | martell. (various references) | |
Chinese | 锤子, 槌 (mallet, pestle). (various references) | |
Cornish | morthol. (various references) | |
Czech | zatloukat, kladivo, kladívko, bušit kladivem. (various references) | |
Danish | hammer (driver, heavy rapping hammer, mallet). (various references) | |
Dutch | hameren (shingling), hamer (mallet, ossicular chain). (various references) | |
Esperanto | martelo, marteli. (various references) | |
Faeroese | hamar (precipice). (various references) | |
Farsi | پتک (Mallet, Sledge), چکش زدن (Mallet), چکش (Mallet), چخماق , کوبیدن (Beat, Bruise, Grind, Knock, Mallet, Nail, Pash, Pound, Ram, Smite, Stave, Stub, Thrash, Thresh), سخت کوشیدن , ضربت زدن (Bob, Inflict, Jow, Sock, Strike), استخوان چکشی . (various references) | |
Finnish | vasara (mallet). (various references) | |
French | marteau (common hammerhead, hammerhead, hammerhead shark, smooth hammerhead), marteler. (various references) | |
Frisian | hammer. (various references) | |
German | hammer (Boner, gavel, howler, mallet, Malleus, sledge), hämmern (beat, belt out, clam, flatten, hammer away, hammer out, hammering, pound, pound out, pounding, throb, thump, thump out, to hammer), Anschlaghammer (jack hammer, striking hammer). (various references) | |
Greek | σφύρα (boomer, brand, branding iron), σφυρίο, σφυρί. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מקבת (mallet, sledge), לחשל (forge, mould, shape, strenghten, temper), לדפוק בפטיש, פטיש, הלמן (mallet). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kalapács (dresser, fuller, gavel, mallet). (various references) | |
Indonesian | palu (gavel). (various references) | |
Irish | casúr. (various references) | |
Italian | martello (gavel, gavels, knocker, Malleus), martelletto (gavel). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 鉄鎚 , 鉄槌 , 金槌 , ハンセン病 (employee of a messenger or delivery service, Hamburg, Hamburg steak, hamburger, hammock, hand, hand carrier, hand lotion, handbag, hand-ball, handbook, handcart, Handelsblatt, handicap, handicraft, hand-knit, handle, handler, handlift, handling, handmade, handout, handshake, handwork, handy, handy mook, humble, hunt, hunter, hunter killer, hunting, hunting cap, Hunting World, leprosy, manual forklift, oscillatory behavior of a non-converging feedback loop, pallet jack, steering wheel), 槌 (gavel, mallet, sledge). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ハンマー , つち (earth, gavel, mallet, sledge, soil), かなづち, てっつい. (various references) | |
Korean | 망치 (flatter). (various references) | |
Malay | palu. (various references) | |
Manx | obbraghey oard er, cur da (allow expenses, append, beat up, belabour, clock, contribute, enhance, etc, give over, hit, lash, pass over; article to trade, scold, thrash), bwoalley (assault, bang, bash, batter, beat, beat up, belabour, buffet, chime, clap, club, flap, hit, knock, mint, percussion, play, pound, pulsate, punch, rhythm, ring, rise of penis, scramble, shock, slam, slap, strike, thrash, thresh, throb, toll, wallop). (various references) | |
Maya | lemeb. (various references) | |
Norwegian | hammer. (various references) | |
Occitan | martèl. (various references) | |
Papago | shonihinakud. (various references) | |
Papiamen | martiu, martin. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ammerhay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | martelo (malleus, striker), martelar (bang, drum, hammering, strum, thump). (various references) | |
Romanian | vârî prin lovituri de ciocan, percutor (striker), lovi (assail, attack, batter, beat, befall, buffet, bump, catch, clap, crack, cuff, cut, dab, drive, drub, fib, flap, harm, hit, hurt, impact, infect, injure, jar, knock, lash, lay hands on, lunge at, Pat, put, reach, seize, shock, slam, slap, smite, spank, strike, swat, swinge, switch, tap, thrust, thump, touch, whack, whip, wipe, wound, wrong), ciocan, ciocãni (drum, knock, Peck, peen, pelt, pound, rap), ciocãnel (gavel), ciocãnaş, bocãni (clamp, knock, thump, tramp). (various references) | |
Romansch | martè. (various references) | |
Romany | chookòos. (various references) | |
Russian | работать молотом, курок (dog, nab), ковать (forge, shoe), выковать (forge), вбивать (peg in/into), нанести поражение (put to the worse, row up Salt River), молоточек (trembler), молоток (gavel), молот (sledgehammer), заколачивать молот, бить по неприятелю, прибивать. (various references) | |
Scottish | òrd (a hammer, a mountain of rounded form). (various references) | |
Sepedi | amole. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zakucavati, zakucati (knock), zabiti (drive in, pitch, pound in, sink), ukucati (drive, drive in, hammer in, type in), prikucati (nail), kladivo, čekić (gavel, malleus). (various references) | |
Shona | nyundo. (various references) | |
Spanish | martillo (firing pin, mart). (various references) | |
Sranan | amra. (various references) | |
Swazi | s-ándvo. (various references) | |
Swedish | hammare (mallet, Malleus), hamra (beat, drum, pound). (various references) | |
Tagalog | pamukpók, martílyo. (various references) | |
Thai | ตอก (ram, tamp), ค้อน, คันเร่ง. (various references) | |
Turkish | hızlı atmak (palpitate), tokmak (beetle, gavel, knob, Mall, mallet, maul, stick), tüfek horozu, işlemek (brake, brand, commit, cultivate, discourse, engrave, farm, ferry, forge, function, go, grave, handle, indwell, instil, instill, operate, penetrate, perform, perpetrate, print, process, run, sink, sink into, stamp, strike, tame, till, travel, treat, work), dövmek (bash up, baste, batter, beat, beat out, beat up, belabor, belabour, Bray, bruise, cane, castigate, chastise, club, cudgel, drub, dust smb.'s jacket, flail, flog, forge, give a beating, give smb. a thrashing, give the stick, hide, knock about, knock around, Lam, lam into, lambaste, larrup, lather, lay in, lay into, lick, Mall, maul, pelt, pound, punish, scutch, slog, sock, spifflicate, spiflicate, swage, swinge, tan, thrash, thwack, trounce, wallop, whale, whip, whop), ağır yenilgiye uğratmak, çekiçlemek (beat out), çekiçle vurmak, çekiç (mallet), çakmak (be aware of, be ploughed, be plowed, beetle, cotton on to, drive, drive in, flash, flunk, gaslighter, ground, land, lighter, pitch, ram, root, rumble, spin, stick, strike, tack, tack down, twig, understand). (various references) | |
Turkmen | зekis, зekiз. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | молоток (gavel), прибивати (nail down). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | với tất cả sức mạnh đánh nhau kịch liệt, cừ khôi (clinking, grand, keen, stunning, walloping). (various references) | |
Welsh | mwrthwl, morthwylio, morthwyl, gordd (mallet), dulio (bang, beat, thump). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | chusi, cudebat, cusi, mallei, malleis, malleo, malleos, malleum, malleus, marcus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 27, Verse 22 |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Si contuderis stultum in pila quasi tisanas feriente desuper pilo non auferetur ab eo stultitia eius |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | If thou bete togidere a fool in a morter, as hoolid barli smytende there vp on the pestel; shal not ben take awei fro hym his folie. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Though thou shouldst bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet his foolishness will not depart from him. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Even if a foolish man is crushed with a hammer in a vessel among crushed grain, still his foolish ways will not go from him. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Proverbs Chapter 27, Verse 22 |
| Cebuano | ¶ Bisan pa ikaw magadugmok sa usa ka buang sa usa ka lusong pinaagi sa usa ka alho lakip sa linubok nga trigo, Apan ang iyang binuang dili gayud mobiya gikan kaniya. |
| Chinese | 你 雖 用 杵 、 將 愚 妄 人 與 打 碎 的 麥 子 一 同 搗 在 臼 中 、 他 的 愚 妄 還 是 離 不 了 他 。 |
| Croatian | Da bezumnika stuèeš tuèkom u stupi, ne bi ga ostavila ludost njegova. |
| Danish | Om du knuste en Dåre i Morter med Støder midt imellem Gryn, hans Dårskab veg dog ej fra ham. |
| Dutch | Al stiet gij den dwaas in een mortier met een stamper, in het midden van het gestoten graan, zijn dwaasheid zou van hem niet afwijken. |
| Finnish | Survo hullua huhmaressa, petkelellä surveitten seassa: ei erkane hänestä hänen hulluutensa. |
| French | Quand tu pilerais l`insensé dans un mortier, Au milieu des grains avec le pilon, Sa folie ne se séparerait pas de lui. |
| German | Wenn du den Narren im Mörser zerstießest mit dem Stämpel wie Grütze, so ließe doch seine Narrheit nicht von ihm. |
| Hungarian | Ha megtörnéd is a bolondot mozsárban mozsártörõvel a megtört gabona között, nem távoznék el õ tõle az õ bolondsága. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Sekalipun orang bodoh dipukul sekeras-kerasnya, tak akan lenyap kebodohannya. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Jikalau kiranya orang bodoh ditumbuk dalam lesung bersama-sama dengan segala beras sekalipun, maka tiada juga bodohnya akan bercerai dari padanya. |
| Italian | Anche se tu pestassi lo stolto nel mortaio tra i grani con il pestello, non scuoteresti da lui la sua stoltezza. |
| Maori | ¶ Ahakoa i tukua e koe te wairangi ki te tuki i roto i te kumete i waenga i nga witi pepe, e kore tona whakaarokore e riro. |
| Norwegian | Om du støter dåren i morteren med støteren midt iblandt grynene, så viker hans dårskap allikevel ikke fra ham. |
| Portuguese | Ainda que pisasses o insensato no gral entre grãos pilados, contudo não se apartaria dele a sua estultícia. |
| Rumanian | Pe nebun chiar dacq l-ai pisa cu pisqlogul kn piuq, kn mijlocul grqunyelor, nebunia tot n`ar iewi din el. - |
| Russian | фПМЛЙ ЗМХРПЗП Ч УФХРЕ РЕУФПН ЧНЕУФЕ У ЪЕТОПН, ОЕ ПФДЕМЙФУС ПФ ОЕЗП ЗМХРПУФШ ЕЗП. |
| Swedish | Om du stötte den oförnuftige mortel med en stöt, bland grynen, så skulle hans oförnuft ändå gå ur honom. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "hammer": hammered, hammerer, hammerers, hammerhead, hammerheads, hammering, hammerless, hammerlock, hammerlocks, hammers, hammertoe, hammertoes. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "hammer": clawhammer, jackhammer, ninnyhammer, rehammer, shammer, sledgehammer, yellowhammer. (additional references) | |
Words containing "hammer": jackhammered, jackhammering, jackhammers, ninnyhammers, rehammered, rehammering, rehammers, shammers, sledgehammered, sledgehammering, sledgehammers, yellowhammers. (additional references) | |
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"Hammer" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ahmer, Ammer, Ammir, Bammer, Haemek, Haimer, hama, Hamari, Hameh, hamir, hamme, Hammet, hammle, Hammnet, Hammou, hamner, hamor, haner, Hanmare, Hanner, heimer, Hemery, hemmor, Heymer, Hommer, humer, jamer, jammer, Kammern, Mammern. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "hammer" (pronounced ha"mer) |
| 3 | -a" m er | enamor, clamor, crammer, dammer, glamor, glamour, grammar, jammer, rammer, slammer, stammer. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-h-m-m-r" | |
-1 letter: harem, herma. | |
-2 letters: ahem, haem, hame, hare, harm, hear, herm, mare, ream, rhea. | |
-3 letters: are, arm, ear, era, hae, ham, hem, her, hmm, mae, mar, mem, rah, ram, rem. | |
-4 letters: ae, ah, am, ar, eh, em, er, ha, he, hm, ma, me, mm, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-h-m-m-r" | |
+1 letter: hammers, hammier, shammer. | |
+2 letters: hammered, hammerer, rehammer, shammers. | |
+3 letters: hammerers, hammering, hammertoe, homemaker, mythmaker, rehammers. | |
+4 letters: amphimacer, chimaerism, chromonema, clawhammer, hammerhead, hammerless, hammerlock, hammertoes, homemakers, jackhammer, matchmaker, meerschaum, mimeograph, mythmakers, rehammered, rheumatism, thermogram. | |
+5 letters: amphimacers, chambermaid, chimaerisms, hammerheads, hammerlocks, jackhammers, matchmakers, meerschaums, merchantman, merchantmen, metamorphic, mimeographs, ninnyhammer, rehammering, rheumatisms, thermograms. | |
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