Thor's hammer (English, noun)
expansion: Thor's hammer (plural Thor's hammers)
Senses:
topics: human-sciences
lifestyle
mysticism
mythology
paganism
philosophy
religion
sciences
glosses: Mjöllnir (Mjollnir), the distinctively T-shaped war-hammer of the Norse thunder god Thor, or a representation thereof, now used as a symbol by various pagan religious groups.
tags: Germanic
Norse
topics: engineering
government
literature
media
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
publishing
science-fiction
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: An orbital drop hypervelocity kinetic energy weapon (KEW). A theoretical weapon, originating from a U.S. government study, Project Thor, from the 1950s.
tags: slang
Forms:
form: Thor's hammers
tags: plural
form: Thor's Hammer
tags: alternative