Tool that hits a nail

Publish date: 2024-06-07
•An instrument for driving nails, beating metals, and the like, consisting of a head, usually of steel or iron, fixed crosswise to a handle.•Something which in firm or action resembles the common hammer•That part of a clock which strikes upon the bell to indicate the hour.•The padded mallet of a piano, which strikes the wires, to produce the tones.•The malleus.•That part of a gunlock which strikes the percussion cap, or firing pin; the cock; formerly, however, a piece of steel covering the pan of a flintlock musket and struck by the flint of the cock to ignite the priming.•Also, a person of thing that smites or shatters; as, St. Augustine was the hammer of heresies.•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.•To form in the mind; to shape by hard intellectual labor; -- usually with out.•To be busy forming anything; to labor hard as if shaping something with a hammer.•To strike repeated blows, literally or figuratively.

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