Définitions
1.NounA tool with a heavy head and a handle used for pounding."Bobby used a hammer and nails to fix the two planks together."
2.NounThe act of using a hammer to hit something."The nail is too loose—give it a hammer."
3.NounThe malleus, a small bone of the middle ear.
4.NounIn a piano or dulcimer, a piece of wood covered in felt that strikes the string."The sound the piano makes comes from the hammers striking the strings"
5.NounA device made of a heavy steel ball attached to a length of wire, and used for throwing.
6.NounThe last stone in an end.
7.NounA frisbee throw in which the disc is held upside-down with a forehand grip and thrown forwards above the head.
8.NounPart of a clock that strikes upon a bell to indicate the hour.
9.NounOne who, or that which, smites or shatters."St. Augustine was the hammer of heresies."
10.NounEllipsis of hammer headline.
11.NounThe accelerator pedal.
12.NounA moving part of a firearm that strikes the firing pin to discharge a gun.
13.NounA handgun.
14.VerbTo strike repeatedly with a hammer, some other implement, the fist, etc."Tony hammered on the door to try to get him to open."
15.VerbTo form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.
16.VerbTo emphasize a point repeatedly.
17.VerbTo hit particularly hard.
18.VerbTo ride very fast.
19.VerbTo strike internally, as if hit by a hammer."I could hear the engine’s valves hammering once the timing rod was thrown."
20.VerbTo defeat (a person, a team) resoundingly."We hammered them 5-0!"
21.VerbTo make high demands on (a system or service).
22.VerbTo declare (a person) a defaulter on the stock exchange.
23.VerbTo beat down the price of (a stock), or depress (a market).
24.VerbTo have hard sex with.