How to pronounce “hammer”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• A tool with a heavy head and a handle used for pounding.
• The act of using a hammer to hit something.
• (anatomy) The malleus, a small bone of the middle ear.
• (music) In a piano or dulcimer, a piece of wood covered in felt that strikes the string.
• (sports) A device made of a heavy steel ball attached to a length of wire, and used for throwing.
• (curling) The last stone in an end.
• (frisbee) A frisbee throw in which the disc is held upside-down with a forehand grip and thrown forwards above the head.
• Part of a clock that strikes upon a bell to indicate the hour.
• One who, or that which, smites or shatters.
• (journalism) Ellipsis of hammer headline.
• (motor racing) The accelerator pedal.
• (firearms) A moving part of a firearm that strikes the firing pin to discharge a gun.
• (African-American Vernacular, slang, loosely) A handgun.
• [Verb]
• To strike repeatedly with a hammer, some other implement, the fist, etc.
• To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.
• (figuratively) To emphasize a point repeatedly.
• (sports, etc.) To hit particularly hard.
• (cycling, intransitive, slang) To ride very fast.
• (intransitive) To strike internally, as if hit by a hammer.
• (transitive, slang, figuratively, sports) To defeat (a person, a team) resoundingly.
• (transitive, slang, computing) To make high demands on (a system or service).
• (transitive, finance) To declare (a person) a defaulter on the stock exchange.
• (transitive, finance) To beat down the price of (a stock), or depress (a market).
• (sex, transitive, colloquial) To have hard sex with.

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