Lectionary Calendar
Thursday, November 21st, 2024
the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
Attention!
Take your personal ministry to the Next Level by helping StudyLight build churches and supporting pastors in Uganda.
Click here to join the effort!

Bible Dictionaries
Hammer

Webster's Dictionary

Search for…
or
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Prev Entry
Hamleted
Next Entry
Hammer Break
Resource Toolbox
Additional Links

(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.
 
adsfree-icon
Ads FreeProfile