Hammer
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.
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.
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Hammer Quotations
Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.
Henry David Thoreau
If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Abraham Maslow
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
Will Rogers
If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
Bernard Baruch
It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.
Emily Dickinson
In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.
Terry Pratchett
Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
Mao Tse-Tung
When you make a drama, you spend all day beating a guy to death with a hammer, or what have you. Or, you have to take a bite out of somebody's face. On the other hand, with a comedy, you yell at Billy Crystal for an hour, and you go home.
Robert De Niro
A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea.
Milan Kundera
For all your days be prepared, and meet them ever alike. When you are the anvil, bear - when you are the hammer, strike.
Edwin Markham
I do think a carpenter needs a good hammer to bang in the nail.
Oliver Reed
I'm in my usual state up here in the commentary box: high tension, heart beating like a trip hammer, whatever that is.
Murray Walker
I'll never sell 14 million like Hammer, I just wanna do a good Ice-T show.
Ice T
The country blacksmith who employs no journeyman is never conscious of any conflict between the capital invested in his anvil, hammer and bellows, and the labor he performs with them, because in fact, there is none.
Leland Stanford
When my nephew was 3 and 4, he would say the most genius things. He said, You're hammer macho with FBI dogs. I thought it was just one of those great lines.
Beck
I think that my vampires in general were influenced by my being allowed to watch the Hammer vampire films. Vampire Circus, also shown as Circus of Fear, was one of those movies.
Laurell K. Hamilton
Imagine this guy hits Mike Hammer over the head with a wooden coathanger and knocks him out. You hit Mike Hammer over the head with a wooden coathanger, he'll beat the crap out of you.
Mickey Spillane
Attempting to write vocal oriented songs to me felt like going through the motions and if you are going to go through the motions you might as well just do any gig that caused you to do repetitive motions like banging a hammer or serving fries.
Ronnie Montrose
Heat can also be produced by the impact of imperfectly elastic bodies as well as by friction. This is the case, for instance, when we produce fire by striking flint against steel, or when an iron bar is worked for some time by powerful blows of the hammer.
Hermann von Helmholtz
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
James Anthony Froude
I took all my wax studies and threw them in the fire... that's the way it is when something unpleasant happens to me. I take my hammer and I squash a figure.
Camille Claudel
This whole acting thing was always just for me and was always an absolute shot in the dark. If it didn't pan out, I had my hammer and tool belt, banging nails again tomorrow if I had to.
Matt LeBlanc
There is a joke that your hammer will always find nails to hit. I find that perfectly acceptable.
Benoit Mandelbrot
Don't force it, get a bigger hammer.
Arthur Bloch
I wrote the original Mike Hammer as a comic, Mike Danger.
Mickey Spillane
My place in Scotland is in the middle of nowhere, so you've just got a keyboard, guitar, a little drum machine and you know if you can work stuff out like that, if you can hammer out songs that sound good just with those three things and a voice, you're on your way.
Jay Kay
Once during a taping there was an actor who kept blowing his lines. It happened again and again. Finally Norman Fell came out-he wasn't even in that scene. But Norman came out and you know what he did? He killed the guy with a hammer.
John Ritter
When I need to nail that riff to the cross, Marshall will always provide the hammer!
Dan Hawkins
I've always acknowledged my debt to Hammer. I've always said I'm very grateful to them. They gave me this great opportunity, made me a well known face all over the world for which I am profoundly grateful.
Christopher Lee
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Hammer Translations
hammer in Danish is hammer
hammer in Dutch is hameren
hammer in French is martelez, martelons, marteau, marteler, martelent
hammer in German is Hammer
hammer in Italian is martello
hammer in Norwegian is hamre, slegge, hammer
hammer in Portuguese is martelo
hammer in Spanish is acotillo, martillear, martillo
hammer in Swedish is hamra, hammare
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