hammer

noun13

1. •
   a piece of equipment for beating things, made of a heavy head fixed to one end of a handle

   • Bobby used a hammer and nails to fix the two planks together.
2. •
   In 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
3. •
   Part of a clock that strikes upon a bell to indicate the hour.
4. •
   A moving part of a firearm that strikes the firing pin to discharge a gun.

   • Nonstop hammer cock, violent mannered shots land a lot — 2016
5. •
   A device made of a heavy steel ball attached to a length of wire, and used for throwing.
6. •
   The accelerator pedal.

   • We is headin' for bear on I-one-oh 'Bout a mile outta Shaky Town. I says, "Pig Pen, this here's the Rubber Duck And I'm about to put the hammer down." — 1975
7. •
   One who, or that which, smites or shatters.

   • St. Augustine was the hammer of heresies.
8. •
   The act of using a hammer to hit something.

   • The nail is too loose—give it a hammer.
9. •
   (slang) A handgun.
10. •
    The malleus, a small bone of the middle ear.
11. •
    A frisbee throw in which the disc is held upside-down with a forehand grip and thrown forwards above the head.
12. •
    The last stone in an end.
13. •
    Ellipsis of hammer headline.

    • Hammers are, in essence, reverse kickers. Instead of being set in smaller type like kickers, hammers are set in larger type than headlines. — 1981

verb12

1. •
   To strike repeatedly with a hammer, some other implement, the fist, etc.

   • Tony hammered on the door to try to get him to open.
2. •
   To hit particularly hard.
3. •
   To strike internally, as if hit by a hammer.

   • I could hear the engine’s valves hammering once the timing rod was thrown.
4. •
   (slang, figurative) To defeat (a person, a team) resoundingly.

   • We hammered them 5-0!
5. •
   (figurative) To emphasize a point repeatedly.
6. •
   To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.
7. •
   (slang) To make high demands on (a system or service).

   • So we'll be hammering the server in an unrealistic manner, but we'll see how the additional clients affect overall performance. We'll add two, three, four, and then five clients, […] — 1995
8. •
   (slang) To ride very fast.

   • Fifteen minutes later, leaving a vapour trail of kitchen smells, I hammered into Obterre. — 2011
9. •
   (informal) To have hard sex with.

   • A short time later I’ve got Lissie in bed. I’m really going after it, really hammering her. — 2012
10. •
    To beat down the price of (a stock), or depress (a market).
11. •
    To overcook (something).
12. •
    To declare (a person) a defaulter on the stock exchange.

noun1

1. •
   someone connected with West Ham Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.