Canadian French Meaning of hammer
marteau
Other Canadian French words related to marteau
Nearest Words of hammer
- hammer and sickle => Marteau et faucille
- hammer break => coup de marteau
- hammer in => cogner un clou
- hammer lock => Clef à marteau
- hammer nose => nez de marteau
- hammer out => forger
- hammer throw => Lancer du marteau
- hammerable => malléable
- hammer-beam => Traverse en console
- hammercloth => Housselure
Definitions and Meaning of hammer in English
hammer (n)
the part of a gunlock that strikes the percussion cap when the trigger is pulled
a hand tool with a heavy rigid head and a handle; used to deliver an impulsive force by striking
the ossicle attached to the eardrum
a light drumstick with a rounded head that is used to strike such percussion instruments as chimes, kettledrums, marimbas, glockenspiels, etc.
a heavy metal sphere attached to a flexible wire; used in the hammer throw
a striker that is covered in felt and that causes the piano strings to vibrate
a power tool for drilling rocks
the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows)
hammer (v)
beat with or as if with a hammer
create by hammering
hammer (n.)
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.
A spherical weight attached to a flexible handle and hurled from a mark or ring. The weight of head and handle is usually not less than 16 pounds.
hammer (v. t.)
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.
hammer (v. i.)
To be busy forming anything; to labor hard as if shaping something with a hammer.
To strike repeated blows, literally or figuratively.
FAQs About the word hammer
marteau
the part of a gunlock that strikes the percussion cap when the trigger is pulled, a hand tool with a heavy rigid head and a handle; used to deliver an impulsive
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approuver,Approuver,appuyer,sanction,Éloge,vanter,exalter,Louer
hammarskjold => Hammarskjöld, hamleted => hamlet, hamlet => Hamlet, hamito-semitic => hamito-sémitique, hamitic language => langue chamito-sémitique,
