Definitions For Hammer

noun

  • The act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows)
  • A hand tool with a heavy rigid head and a handle; used to deliver an impulsive force by striking
  • A power tool for drilling rocks
  • A striker that is covered in felt and that causes the piano strings to vibrate
  • The part of a gunlock that strikes the percussion cap when the trigger is pulled
  • A heavy metal sphere attached to a flexible wire; used in the hammer throw
  • A light drumstick with a rounded head that is used to strike such percussion instruments as chimes, kettledrums, marimbas, glockenspiels, etc.
  • The ossicle attached to the eardrum
  • A tool that has a heavy metal head attached to a handle and that is used for hitting nails or breaking things apart
  • A similar tool made usually of wood and used especially for hitting a surface to make a loud noise
  • The part of a gun that strikes a charge causing the gun to shoot

verb

  • Beat with or as if with a hammer
  • Create by hammering
  • To force (something) into a particular place or shape by hitting it with a hammer
  • To attach (something) with a hammer and nails
  • To hit (something or someone) in a very forceful way

Is Hammers a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
14
Words with Friends
15

The word Hammer is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Hammer in a Sentence

  • He hammered the dent out of the fender.
  • The carpenters were hammering all afternoon.
  • The workers are hammering the studs to the frame.

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