| Hammer: English to English |
| Hammer (n.) Also, a person of thing that smites or shatters; as, St. Augustine was the hammer of heresies. |
| Hammer (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. |
| Hammer (n.) Something which in firm or action resembles the common hammer |
| Hammer (n.) That part of a clock which strikes upon the bell to indicate the hour. |
| Hammer (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. |
| Hammer (n.) The malleus. |
| Hammer (n.) The padded mallet of a piano, which strikes the wires, to produce the tones. |
| Hammer (v. i.) To be busy forming anything; to labor hard as if shaping something with a hammer. |
| Hammer (v. i.) To strike repeated blows, literally or figuratively. |
| Hammer (v. t.) To beat with a hammer; to beat with heavy blows; as, to hammer iron. |
| Hammer (v. t.) To form in the mind; to shape by hard intellectual labor; -- usually with out. |
| Hammer (v. t.) To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating. |