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(1):

(n.) A spherical weight attached to a flexible handle and hurled from a mark or ring. The weight of head and handle is usually not less than 16 pounds.

(2):

(n.) The padded mallet of a piano, which strikes the wires, to produce the tones.

(3):

(n.) Also, a person of thing that smites or shatters; as, St. Augustine was the hammer of heresies.

(4):

(v. t.) To form in the mind; to shape by hard intellectual labor; - usually with out.

(5):

(v. t.) To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.

(6):

(n.) The malleus.

(7):

(n.) That part of a clock which strikes upon the bell to indicate the hour.

(8):

(v. i.) To strike repeated blows, literally or figuratively.

(9):

(v. i.) To be busy forming anything; to labor hard as if shaping something with a hammer.

(10):

(n.) Something which in firm or action resembles the common hammer

(11):

(n.) That part of a gunlock which strikes the percussion cap, or firing pin; the cock; formerly, however, a piece of steel covering the pan of a flintlock musket and struck by the flint of the cock to ignite the priming.

(12):

(v. t.) To beat with a hammer; to beat with heavy blows; as, to hammer iron.

(13):

(n.) An instrument for driving nails, beating metals, and the like, consisting of a head, usually of steel or iron, fixed crosswise to a handle.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Hammer'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​h/hammer.html. 1828.
 
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