hammer
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
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mathematics
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physical-sciences
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sex
sexuality
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Etymology: From Middle English hamer, from Old English hamor, from Proto-West Germanic *hamar, from Proto-Germanic *hamaraz (“tool with a stone head”) (compare West Frisian hammer, Low German Hamer, Dutch hamer, German Hammer, Danish hammer, Swedish hammare). This is traditionally ascribed to Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱmoros, from *h₂éḱmō (“stone”), but see *hamaraz for further discussion.
(declare a defaulter on the stock exchange): Originally signalled by knocking with a wooden mallet.
Inflected forms:
form: hammers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hammering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hammered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hammered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To strike repeatedly with a hammer, some other implement, the fist, etc.
pos: verb
examples: Tony hammered on the door to try to get him to open.
Fresleven - that was the fellow’s name, a Dane - thought himself wronged somehow in the bargain, so he went ashore and started to hammer the chief of the village with a stick.
"He's been waiting to jump my brain-bones since I left R&E. I could feel him hammering on the door." She trotted to the nearest wall and knocked on it for emphasis. "But whatever it is that makes us remember the good old days, it also makes us impossible to possess now. That's why Willie and I both woke up, and why Noè never got taken out by Mukami. So all I had to do was open my mind up to the guy, invite him in, then... gas the foyer, as it were."
gloss: To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.
pos: verb
examples: hammered money
gloss: To emphasize a point repeatedly.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
gloss: To hit particularly hard.
pos: verb
tags: usually
examples: This time the defender was teed up by Andrew Johnson's short free-kick on the edge of the box and Baird hammered his low drive beyond Begovic's outstretched left arm and into the bottom corner, doubling his goal tally for the season and stunning the home crowd.
"My memory of him in the office at Peterborough was the ferocious nature of his typing, on a manual machine of course. This was long before the days of desktop publishing, and you could hear him down the corridor absolutely hammering the keyboard."
gloss: To ride very fast.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
examples: Fifteen minutes later, leaving a vapour trail of kitchen smells, I hammered into Obterre.
Running at line-speed, well over 100mph, it hammers through Doncaster on its way south to London.
gloss: To strike internally, as if hit by a hammer.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I could hear the engine’s valves hammering once the timing rod was thrown.
gloss: To defeat (a person, a team) resoundingly.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
slang
transitive
examples: We hammered them 5-0!
gloss: To make high demands on (a system or service).
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: 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, […]
gloss: To declare (a person) a defaulter on the stock exchange.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To beat down the price of (a stock), or depress (a market).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To have hard sex with.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
transitive
examples: A short time later I’ve got Lissie in bed. I’m really going after it, really hammering her.
Related words: hammer out
Derived words: hammerable
hammered
hammerer
hammer home
hammer out
hammer up
mishammer
outhammer
rehammer
sledgehammer
the nail that sticks out gets hammered down
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