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/hˈæmərɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Hammer v. t. (past & past part. hammered; pres. part. hammering)

To beat with a hammer; to beat with heavy blows; as, to hammer iron.

To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating. "Hammered money."

To form in the mind; to shape by hard intellectual labor; usually with out. "Who was hammering out a penny dialogue."

Hammer v. i.

To be busy forming anything; to labor hard as if shaping something with a hammer. "Whereon this month I have been hammering."

To strike repeated blows, literally or figuratively. "Blood and revenge are hammering in my head."

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Etymology of 'Hammering'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Hammering" Quotes from Famous Books

... over or fell into the city, doing, however, little damage. The elevation of the guns must have been unusually great. I am told that every one of them burst after a week's, or thereabouts, firing. Poor Fort Sumter was nearly silenced after many months' hammering, but its brave defenders remained in it to the last, and it was not till a few days before Charleston was abandoned that they gave it up. At the time I speak of the whole of the western beach was in the hands of the enemy, Battery Wagner having succumbed after one of the most gallant ...

— Sketches From My Life - By The Late Admiral Hobart Pasha • Hobart Pasha

... a pistol, dropped useless at his side. His brain reeled with the shock. The oddly swinging arm, dangling like a doll's, with the palm turned backward, seemed to fascinate him. Why was he there? What was he doing? Why was he hammering the horses over the head with a stable fork held tightly in his right hand? He hardly knew; his mind was clouded; he was fighting by instinct, and always crowding along the wall toward the farther corner. The girl had quite faded from his sight. Somehow he ...

— Thoroughbreds • W. A. Fraser

... the clamour of the mob outside, who were hammering at the door and shouting curses through the keyhole, he could understand nothing, but at length they succeeded in explaining to him that they were domestic servants come ill answer to his wife's advertisement. The ...

— Novel Notes • Jerome K. Jerome

... fun of making others suffer; if he himself were suffering tenfold more? And, on reaching the barrack, he would have all that freezing and blast-hammering trip back again. Aw, what ...

— Further Adventures of Lad • Albert Payson Terhune

... those trees, the awful sound of that water in quest of which we came, that seems as though it were precipitating and dashing itself down from the lofty mountains of the Moon, and that incessant hammering that wounds and pains our ears; which things all together and each of itself are enough to instil fear, dread, and dismay into the breast of Mars himself, much more into one not used to hazards and adventures of the kind. Well, then, all this that ...

— Don Quixote • Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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