Noun: hammer
| Singular | hammer |
| Plural | hammers |
Sample Sentences
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Bobby used a hammer and nails to fix the two planks together.
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Men shove statues off pedestals, and use hammers and drills to destroy what’s left. [2015 February 26, Ben Wedeman, Dana Ford, “Video shows ISIS militants destroying antiquities in Iraq”, in CNN, archived from the original on 01 Feb 2023:]
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The nail is too loose—give it a hammer.
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The sound the piano makes comes from the hammers striking the strings
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St. Augustine was the hammer of heresies.
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He met the stern legionaries [of Rome] who had been the massive iron hammers of the whole earth. [1849, John Henry Newman, Discourses to Mixed Congregations:]
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Hammers are, in essence, reverse kickers. Instead of being set in smaller type like kickers, hammers are set in larger type than headlines. [1981, Harry W. Stonecipher, Edward C. Nicholls, Douglas A. Anderson, Electronic Age News Editing, page 104:]
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We is headin' for bear on I-one-oh
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'Bout a mile outta Shaky Town.
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I says, "Pig Pen, this here's the Rubber Duck
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And I'm about to put the hammer down." [1975, “Convoy”, in C.W. McCall, Chip Davis (lyrics), Black Bear Road, performed by C. W. McCall:]
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But the Englishman was close to him—so close that his hand reached the leveled barrel a fraction of a second before the hammer fell upon the cartridge, and the bullet that was intended for Tarzan’s heart whirred harmlessly above his head. [1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 219:]
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Nonstop hammer cock, violent mannered shots land a lot [2016, Doseone, “Enter the Gungeon”, in Enter the Gungeon OST:]
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In the course of a single month this year, the following news reports emanated from Florida: A gun enthusiast in Tampa built a 55-foot backyard pool shaped like a revolver, with a hot tub in the hammer. [2023 March 27, Helen Lewis, “How Did America’s Weirdest, Most Freedom-Obsessed State Fall for an Authoritarian Governor?”, in The Atlantic:]
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Another one of my peoples came to me with a plan. "Yo, man, I need to get some money. I need to borrow that hammer." So I gave him my nickel-plated .357 with a wooden handle, and off he went to stand by the weed spot. [2018, U-God [Lamont Hawkins], Raw: My Journey Into The Wu-Tang, New York, N.Y.: Picador, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 119:]
Nouns inflected like hammer
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Germanic *hamaraz
3. Proto-West Germanic *hamar
4. Old English hamor
5. Middle English hamer
6. English hammer
7. 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). This is traditionally ascribed to Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱmoros, from *h₂éḱmō (“stone”), but see *hamaraz for further discussion.
8. (declare a defaulter on the stock exchange): Originally signalled by knocking with a wooden mallet. See: Middle English Nouns '
hamer', Old English Nouns '
hamor', Dutch Nouns '
hamer', German Nouns '
Hammer', Danish Nouns '
hammer', Swedish Nouns '
hammare'.
Verbs referencing "hammer"
German Nouns
Hammer, Ancient Greek Nouns
ἄκμων, Latvian Nouns
āmurs, Old Norse Nouns
hamarr.