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hammer

English

🔊 the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows)
“the sudden hammer of fists caught him off guard”
🔊 a hand tool with a heavy rigid head and a handle
🔊 a power tool for drilling rocks
🔊 a striker that is covered in felt and that causes the piano strings to vibrate
🔊 the part of a gunlock that strikes the percussion cap when the trigger is pulled
🔊 a heavy metal sphere attached to a flexible wire
🔊 a light drumstick with a rounded head that is used to strike such percussion instruments as chimes, kettledrums, marimbas, glockenspiels, etc.
🔊 the ossicle attached to the eardrum
🔊 beat with or as if with a hammer
“hammer the metal flat”
🔊 create by hammering
“hammer the silver into a bowl”