What is the meaning of HAMMER. Phrases containing HAMMER
See meanings and uses of HAMMER!HAMMER
HAMMER
HAMMER
HAMMER
HAMMER
HAMMER
Acronyms & AI meanings
Dansk Varedeklarations Nævn
Defense Environmental Management Information System
Institut für Leichtbau und Kunststofftechnik
Virtual Jewish University
Marine Ecological Surveys
Oto Rino Laringologie
Iowa Council of Figure Skating Clubs
Actual Expense
National Veterans Wheelchair Games
: African Horse Safari Association
HAMMER
HAMMER
A vessel partly filled with water, exhausted of air, and hermetically sealed. When reversed or shaken, the water being unimpeded by air, strikes the sides in solid mass with a sound like that of a hammer.
A tilted hammer; a heavy hammer, used in iron works, which is lifted or tilted by projections or wipers on a revolving shaft; a trip hammer.
A tilt hammer.
HAMMER
pl.
of Hammerman
imp. & p. p.
of Hammer
n.
A hammerer; a forgeman.
n.
Also, a person of thing that smites or shatters; as, St. Augustine was the hammer of heresies.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Hammer
v. t.
To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.
a.
Having the surface roughly shaped or faced with the stonecutter's hammer; -- said of building stone.
n.
A shark of the genus Sphyrna or Zygaena, having the eyes set on projections from the sides of the head, which gives it a hammer shape. The Sphyrna zygaena is found in the North Atlantic. Called also hammer fish, and balance fish.
a.
Having a surface dressed by cutting with a hammer the head of which consists of broad thin chisels clamped together.
n.
One who works with a hammer.
v. t.
To beat with a hammer; to beat with heavy blows; as, to hammer iron.
v. t.
To harden, as a metal, by hammering it in the cold state.
n.
A member of one description of roof truss, called hammer-beam truss, which is so framed as not to have a tiebeam at the top of the wall. Each principal has two hammer-beams, which occupy the situation, and to some extent serve the purpose, of a tiebeam.
n.
Something which in firm or action resembles the common hammer
a.
Without a visible hammer; -- said of a gun having a cock or striker concealed from sight, and out of the way of an accidental touch.
a.
Capable of being formed or shaped by a hammer.
v. i.
To be busy forming anything; to labor hard as if shaping something with a hammer.
HAMMER
HAMMER