hammer

A tool with a heavy head and a handle used for pounding.

Bobby used a hammer and nails to fix the two planks together

The act of using a hammer to hit something.

The nail is too loose—give it a hammer.

The malleus, a small bone of the middle ear.

In a piano or dulcimer, a piece of wood covered in felt that strikes the string.

The sound the piano makes comes from the hammers striking the strings

A device made of a heavy steel ball attached to a length of wire, and used for throwing.

To strike repeatedly with a hammer, some other implement, the fist, etc.

Tony hammered on the door to try to get him to open.

Fresleven - that was the fellow’s name, a Dane - thought himself wronged somehow in the bargain, so he went ashore and started to hammer the chief of the village with a stick.

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

hammered money

To emphasize a point repeatedly.

To hit particularly hard.

This time the defender was teed up by Andrew Johnson's short free-kick on the edge of the box and Baird hammered his low drive beyond Begovic's outstretched left arm and into the bottom corner, doubling his goal tally for the season and stunning the home crowd.

"My memory of him in the office at Peterborough was the ferocious nature of his typing, on a manual machine of course. This was long before the days of desktop publishing, and you could hear him down the corridor absolutely hammering the keyboard."

To ride very fast.

Fifteen minutes later, leaving a vapour trail of kitchen smells, I hammered into Obterre.

Running at line-speed, well over 100mph, it hammers through Doncaster on its way south to London.

someone connected with West Ham Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.