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| hammering | |
| 1. n. 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. | |
| 2. n. A dented appearance on silverware, produced by successive blows of a hammer. | |
| 3. n. (slang) A heavy defeat. | |
| hammer | |
| 1. n. A tool with a heavy head and a handle used for pounding. | |
| 2. n. A moving part of a firearm that strikes the firing pin to discharge a gun. | |
| 3. n. (anatomy) The malleus, a small bone of the middle ear. | |
| 4. n. (music) In a piano or dulcimer, a piece of wood covered in felt that strikes the string. | |
| 5. n. (sports) A device made of a heavy steel ball attached to a length of wire, and used for throwing. | |
| 6. n. (curling) The last stone in an end. | |
| 7. n. (Ultimate Frisbee) A frisbee throwing style in which the disc is held upside-down with a forehand grip and thrown above the head. | |
| 8. n. Part of a clock that strikes upon a bell to indicate the hour. | |
| 9. n. One who, or that which, smites or shatters. | |
| St. Augustine was the hammer of heresies. | |
| 10. v. To strike repeatedly with a hammer, some other implement, the fist, etc. | |
| 11. v. To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating. | |
| 12. v. (figuratively) To emphasize a point repeatedly. | |
| 13. v. (sports) To hit particularly hard. | |
| 14. v. (cycling, intransitive, slang) To ride very fast. | |
| 15. v. (intransitive) To strike internally, as if hit by a hammer. | |
| I could hear the engine’s valves hammering once the timing rod was thrown. | |
| 16. v. (transitive figuratively, sports) To defeat (a person, a team) resoundingly | |
| We hammered them 5-0! | |
