hammer
A tool with a heavy head and a handle used for pounding.
Noun 4 meanings
A tool with a heavy head and a handle used for pounding.
“Bobby used a hammer and nails to fix the two planks together.”
The act of using a hammer to hit something.
“The nail is too loose—give it a hammer.”
The malleus, a small bone of the middle ear.
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”
Verb 4 meanings
To strike repeatedly with a hammer, some other implement, the fist, etc.
“Tony hammered on the door to try to get him to open.”
To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.
To emphasize a point repeatedly.
To hit particularly hard.
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).
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HAMMER at a glance
HAMMER has 6 letters and scores 13 points in Scrabble (H 4 + A 1 + M 3 + M 3 + E 1 + R 1) and 14 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #5,406 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with hammer
All rhymes- FORMER11
- SUMMER10
- CUSTOMER12
- CONSUMER12
- FARMER11
- PALMER10
- HOMER10
- PERFORMER16
- WARMER11
- DRUMMER12
- TIMER7
- POLYMER14
One letter away
- HAMPER13
- HUMMER13
- JAMMER17
- HARMER11
- YAMMER13
- RAMMER10
- HEMMER13
- HAMMED14
- GAMMER11
- BAMMER12
- LAMMER10
- MAMMER12
- DAMMER11
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