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the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows); "the sudden hammer of fists caught him off guard"; "the pounding of feet on the hallway" a hand tool with a heavy rigid head and a handle; used to deliver an impulsive force by striking a power tool for drilling rocks a striker that is covered in felt and that causes the piano strings to vibrate the part of a gunlock that strikes the percussion cap when the trigger is pulled a heavy metal sphere attached to a flexible wire; used in the hammer throw an athletic competition in which a heavy metal ball that is attached to a flexible wire is hurled as far as possible beat with or as if with a hammer; "hammer the metal flat" the ossicle attached to the eardrum create by hammering; "hammer the silver into a bowl"; "forge a pair of tongues" |
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