hammer¹

noun ˈhamə

1A tool with a heavy metal head mounted at right angles at the end of a handle, used for jobs such as breaking things and driving in nails.
锤子，榔头
Example sentencesExamples
- It wasn't until early last fall that I actually pulled it out of the plastic tub that houses my hammer, nails, and other unused tools.
- Much of the work is done manually using basic tools like hammers, shovels, axes and mammoties, a spade-like implement common throughout Sri Lanka.
- He began the process of clipping various tools to his brother's belt - nail gun, replacement clips, throwing chisels, hammers, saw blades, sander, drill bits.
- They have nail guns, hammers, drills, the whole lot; everything they need to facilitate the destruction.
- In addition to Mike's skill and knowledge on the golf course, he's pretty handy with a hammer and nails and has quite a selection of tools in the garage.
- Use a ball-peen hammer or a block of wood and a nail hammer to knock the tool head out of the ferule on the handle.
- Most of the project requires basic wood-working tools - a circular saw, a saber saw, an electric drill, a hammer, and a nail set.
- To drill through the tile you will need a hammer, a nail set, an electric drill and a masonry bit a little larger than the diameter of the screws you use.
- Use a hammer and nail set or an electric drill with countersink bit to join the frame pieces.
- Before you hit your sales reps with a lot of questions or break out the hammer and nails to begin building displays, do an assessment of your shop.
- I also need a hammer and nails, picture hooks and the step ladder.
- Use a hammer and nail set to drive them below the surface.
- Although the small shop houses a grinder-buffer, drill, bench sander and electric saw, most of the tools are primitive looking hammers, mallets and anvils.
- That wood was probably going to go to some company and be used to make door stops or handles for axes or hammers or something like that.
- Grip pressure should be firm but not tight - about the way you would grip a hammer's handle while driving nails.
- If all you have in your home is a broken screwdriver, a hammer without a handle, and one wrench you hope will happen to fit whatever bolt you encounter, you need some help.
- Then pull out the nails with a hammer or locking pliers.
- To do this, he says, you need two basic tools: a hammer and a screwdriver.
- I moved on to the engine room and took a good look around the engine and workshop area, which still held tools, spanners and hammers!
- They would also have used tools such as planes, axes, adzes, draw knives, wedges, knives, chisels, hammers, mallets, awls, gouges, and spoon augers (a type of drill).
Synonyms
mallet, beetle, gavel
1. 1.1 A machine with a metal block for giving a heavy blow to something.
  锻压机
  Example sentencesExamples
  Hydraulic hammers and breakers, attached to big excavators or scudding skid-steers, announce demolition.
  A hydraulic hammer is basically a hydraulically powered reciprocating piston inside of a body.
  Shaw points out that hydraulic hammers and pulverizer attachments have allowed them to pick up demolition work on bridges and commercial and industrial buildings.
2. 1.2 An auctioneer's gavel, tapped to indicate a sale.
  Example sentencesExamples
  A auctioneer lowers his hammer as a painting believed to be a work by Vincent Van Gogh is sold for US $550,000 in Tokyo yesterday.
  Worrall's book is a warning to anyone lured by the auctioneer's hammer.
  Before I knew it my arm flew up, the auctioneer banged the hammer down and she was mine!
  This slim fast-talking man is a whiz with an auction hammer.
  City fans will be given a chance to get hold of their own piece of football history when items from Maine Road go under the auctioneer's hammers.
3. 1.3 A part of a mechanism that hits another part to make it work, such as one exploding the charge in a gun or one striking the strings of a piano.
  （机械装置中用来击打另一部件使之运作的）小锤；（枪炮的）击铁；（钢琴等的）音锤
  Example sentencesExamples
  Frames and slides are made to his specifications by a vendor, as are screws and springs, but Brown machines sears, hammers, safeties and most of the other small parts.
  The SFS adds a mechanical hammer block to prevent the hammer from hitting the firing pin unless the trigger is pulled.
  The safety also blocks the hammer from contact with the firing pin.
  If struck a hard blow, the hammers are designed to shear rather than override the sears.
  On the other hand, Debussy seems at times to call for a delicacy beyond the capability of fingers or for a piano which has no hammers at all.
2A metal ball of about 7 kg attached to a wire for throwing in an athletic contest.
（体育中的）链球
Example sentencesExamples
- He towered above others and could throw the hammer to a distance of around 190 feet.
- For Skyrac AC Nicola Jackson threw the hammer 39.22m for sixth place.
- Aidan Kelly scored top points when finishing in 1st place in the hammer with a throw of 36.24.
- It is an Olympic sport, like rifle shooting, and throwing the hammer or the discus.
- And what about if the hockey was taking place on the same field that they were throwing the hammer and javelin.
1. 2.1the hammer The sport of throwing a hammer.
  链球（运动）
  Example sentencesExamples
  There is also a track surface to provide a run-up for the javelin meaning the only disciplines the facility cannot currently play host to is the hammer and pole vault.
  Olympic hammer champion Szymon Ziolkowski of Poland set a new world championship record to win gold ahead of Asian record holder Koji Murofushi.
  The City of Glasgow athlete has thrown 55.10m in the hammer this season - well over the qualification mark for the World Juniors.
  In the under-17 events, James Nagle won gold in the hammer and shot putt contests.
  We are very strong here in Sligo on the track, but quite weak in some field events such as pole vault, high jump and hammer.
3
another term for malleus
Example sentencesExamples
- The findings are drawn from examination of the hammer, anvil and stirrup bones in the ears of Homo heidelbergensis fossils, also known as Boxgrove Man.
- There they became the anvil and the hammer, minute bones that transmit sound from the eardrum to the stirrup bone and, ultimately, to the inner ear.
- The drum vibrates with the sound and rattles three small bones: the hammer, anvil and stirrup.

verb ˈhamə

[with object]

1Hit or beat (something) repeatedly with a hammer or similar object.
用锤（或类似物）反复敲打（某物）
he hammered the tack in
他将头钉钉入。
Example sentencesExamples
- Joe and Serena are talking about their new loves when Paul hammers the door down demanding to know why she graffitied his wall.
- The best type of helm was hammered and raised out of a single piece of iron and was therefore stronger than a riveted one.
- The melted Stones were beat and hammered into weapons called the Behemoths.
- Toe plates are then cut from sheet metal, and pieces of iron are hammered and twisted into shape to form soles and heels.
- Far off to his left, he could hear Em and the Marns boy hammering planks to the tree.
- The men were hammering wooden boards with cartoon - like ferocity.
- We heard the rhythmic pounding as the spear points were hammered onto shafts of ash wood.
- That way when you are hammering the post spike you are hitting the wooden post piece, not the metal.
- The surgeon then packs cement along the distal femur and hammers the femoral implant into place.
- A golden spike was hammered into the ground to symbolize the momentous occasion.
- As a boy he was taught to read by feeling upholstery studs hammered into pieces of wood in the shapes of letters and numbers.
- It's difficult to have a chilled and relaxed weekend when it's accompanied by the sound of Dominic hammering floorboards, Dominic hammering walls, Dominic hammering doors and window frames.
- Jesus is flung on the rough timber and iron spikes are hammered through his hands and feet.
- I hammered it to death repeatedly with the book for several minutes.
- I'm serious: some guy in my neighbourhood has been hammering the same nail for about eight months now.
- No one here is hammering a list of demands on a church door.
- With the birds already in the construction I couldn't start hammering a new thing onto it, nor could they really be moved for fear of traumatising the newborn ducklings.
- After that nails are hammered through the pre-punched holes as the pieces are attached to the wood.
- ‘In old times they started making gold leaf by hammering gold between pieces of leather,’ Tsaneva explains.
- Of course that first thing that sprang to mind was lockjaw, but I've not been hammering any rusty nails recently, so it's unlikely.
- The kids, from knee-high to tall as any grown up, sanded the round bone discs, and hammered a design onto a metal plate that Yip riveted to the face of the disc.
- A haze of fragrant wood-smoke rose from his furnace; workers sawed and hammered metal, others worked meticulously on figurines which had been rough cast.
- He has three men at work on the deck, and with a chisel, they are hammering little bits of cotton waste into the tiny spaces between the beams that form the deck.
Synonyms
beat, forge, shape, form, mould, fashion, make
1. 1.1no object Strike or knock at or on something violently with one's hand or with a hammer or other object.
  （用手、锤子等用力）击打，敲打
  she hammered on his door
  她猛敲他的门。
  with object he hammered the ball wildly over the crossbar
  Example sentencesExamples
  On a coffee table in their sitting room stood two cups of cold coffee and the remains of two cream cakes - all that was left of the snack they abandoned last night when a neighbour hammered on their door and told them they had to get out.
  Played in ideal conditions the Charlestown lads settled quickly and took the lead through David Caffrey who beat three players before hammering the ball to the net.
  He hammered on the shield again, tears of rage and frustration flowing freely down his cheeks.
  Indeed, Kilbride might have rubbed salt in with big Jim Fitz hammering a shot off the crossbar in the closing moments before the nimble Nolan brought the scoring to an end with his fifth point from a free.
  Stephen then hammered on the door of a house to get help and an elderly man let him in and comforted him for half-an-hour before he walked for five minutes up the road to his home.
  Harlan took the dagger and hammered it down onto the desk so loudly that it made even Camelot jump.
  The girlfriend, Peggy, knocks on the door of the room where Lemmon is furiously hammering away on his typewriter.
  There are, as I write, three or four thousand aroused woodpeckers hammering away at my property.
  Yappyfox, the red fox who so proudly hammered on his cymbal for the previous nine hours, takes the stage and begins a classic instrumental song.
  However Waterford were soon back on the attack and Fitzgerald went close once more as he hammered a right foot shot off the crossbar with Devlin beaten.
  People hammered on train doors and screamed to get out, while crowds in the station ran in all directions, protecting their heads, to get away from the chaos.
  However, I broke the silence as I hammered on the door to attract attention.
  The equaliser came in the final minute when Lee Buggie latched onto a throughball and hammered a shot past the keeper.
  I hammered on the door of my brother's room and later on the restroom door.
  He hammers away at the keys, periodically ripping the paper out of the machine, thrusting it into the hands of whichever cabinet minister has drawn the short straw, and gasping, ‘here, give them this.’
  This is as far as we go because rock breakers are still hammering away here, slowly pulverising the rock to clear trenches for drains.
  Both Mr Noble and Mr Roper then hammered on the room doors along the corridor to rouse other guests before dashing upstairs to wake people on the top floor.
  Both men hammered on the rooms along the corridor to rouse other guests.
  He clapped Bligh's arm, and then turned and hammered on the door.
  I've been sawing and hammering away at that wood we rescued from behind the mall, and made a couple of lovely rough crates for my home-made goodies to go into.
  Synonyms
  batter, pummel, beat, bang, pound
  strike, hit, knock on, thump on
  cudgel, bludgeon, club, pelt, assail, thwack
  informal bash, wallop, clobber, whack
2. 1.2hammer awayno object Work hard and persistently.
  拼命干，作不懈努力
  they must hammer away at these twin themes day after day
  他们必须日复一日地拼命工作以完成这两篇紧密相关的论文。
  Example sentencesExamples
  During this time period, the opposition party usually has a group of potential presidential candidates hammering away at the incumbent.
  They amassed a further 47 points without reply and were still hammering away at what remained of the shreds of Italy's defence even as the clock ticked into injury time.
  The flashpoint of debate and controversy is the status of women, and Makhmalbaf's films, along with those of his wife and daughter, continue to hammer away at this theme.
  While the above has been one stream of outpouring in the country's press, the other has been to hammer away at what many columnists saw as a confession-and-pardon charade.
  I continue to hammer away at the importance of public broadcasting, and the importance of saving our book publishing industry.
  SGI continues to be happy hammering away on the high end graphics and scientific computing markets.
  Depends on the effectiveness of the Democrats at hammering away at that issue.
  She hammers away at her themes, supposedly ironizing irony.
  And they kept hammering away right up until the elections that ETA was a prime suspect.
  Yeah, but you don't see the media hammering away at that issue.
  SGI continues to hammer away on the graphics and high performance computing markets that brought it fame.
  Rais has been hammering away at the judiciary issue.
  We keep hammering away at these shortfalls in our system.
  Still, current events are relentlessly hammering away at the idea that ethnicity can and should be the foundation of nationality.
  You're going to see the prosecution hammering away at the Modesto Police Department throughout this entire process.
  And we'll take you live to the Scott Peterson murder trial where prosecutors are hammering away on his character.
  After hammering away through ruck after ruck, an Eric Miller surge caught the English offside and Humphreys kicked the precious points.
  Sean Barker, Andrew Fester and Bob Hardy kept hammering away at the home defence and Mark Allen capitalised with a try in the corner to cap a fine display.
  While the company continues to hammer away at the upscale appliance market in the United States, it has opened its once-proprietary control protocol to other companies.
  Synonyms
  work hard, labour, slog away, plod away, grind away, slave away, work like a Trojan, work like a dog, keep one's nose to the grindstone
  persist with, persevere with, keep on with, press on with, not cease from
  informal stick at, peg away at, beaver away at, plug away at, work one's socks off on, sweat blood for, soldier on with, kill oneself with
  British informal graft away at
  rare drudge away at
3. 1.3hammer something in/into Inculcate something forcefully or repeatedly.
  强行灌输，反复灌输
  a commercial image that was hammered into English consciousness
  一个反复灌输到英国人头脑中的广告形象。
  Example sentencesExamples
  If Democrats don't soon begin to strongly support serious movement to renewable energy sources - including hammering the idea in the corporate media - then Republicans may do just that.
  Indeed, the point was hammered in by a voice-overed narrator contributing fatuous observations like ‘The huge gulf between rich and poor highlights how lucky we are in New Zealand!’
  The deal is simple, and he hammers it in more specifically: ‘Do not play with our security, and spontaneously you will secure yourself.’
  Synonyms
  drum, instil, inculcate, knock, drive, din
  drive home to, impress upon, teach repeatedly to, reiterate to
  ingrain
2informal Attack or criticize forcefully and relentlessly.
〈非正式〉猛烈抨击，无情批评
he got hammered for an honest mistake
他因一无心的错误而受到严厉的批评。
Example sentencesExamples
- It looks like the Republicans are planning on hammering him on that one.
- Health professionals are mobilising to condemn the government, propose major structural reforms, and hammer the ineffectual minister.
- Unfortunately we are hammered by the Government if we don't do anything - and by the public if we do.
- Some of the critics in the county who had hammered Corkery for more than a decade were lining up Masters as their next legitimate target.
- No doubt there were hundreds of agitprop dramas in the 1950s hammering Joe McCarthy's red-baiting campaign.
- Large goannas are the ones that are likely to be hammered pretty badly by cane toads.
- They might have hammered him for exposing a unit to theft or damage.
- The inquiry counsel annoyed the press by attacking their coverage and got hammered himself as a result.
- He has been hammered in the newspapers and by the critics.
- In his cross-examinations, he has hammered the witnesses with questions about rebel activity in their villages.
- It seemed harsh to hammer him for following what must have been an agreed policy and harsher still when he was forced to play on the retreat all afternoon.
- He got five years for the fraud that never happened, and the system seemed eager to hammer him.
- The press in America have hammered him for not winning any of the last four, but I would like to have that problem.
- It would probably do the culture secretary the world of good to go, even if she is hammered for the new three-year deal for arts funding from the government, announced last month.
- This is the first time I've ever had a case where in a shoplifting situation somebody has been hammered this relentlessly.
- It hammers the company for not detailing the assumed rates of return at other telecom companies.
- The author has been hammered by critics into a tiny ball of bloody gunk over the last few months.
- If the Government is increasingly hammering journalists here, there has to be a sea change in the way we respond.
- They just attacked me, hammered me at the book signing.
- He is getting hammered for allowing these words to be in the State of the Union address.
Synonyms
criticize, censure, attack, condemn, castigate, chastise, lambaste, pillory, reprimand, rebuke, admonish, remonstrate with, take to task, haul over the coals, berate, reproach, reprove
informal knock, slam, lay into, roast, cane, blast, bawl out, dress down
British informal carpet, slate, slag off, monster, rollick
North American informal chew out, ream out, pummel, cut up
Australian/New Zealand informal bag
rare excoriate, objurgate, reprehend
1. 2.1 Utterly defeat in a game or contest.
  （在比赛中）彻底击败，大获全胜
  they hammered St Mirren 4–0
  他们以4比0大败圣米伦队。
  Example sentencesExamples
  In previous years you might have a slip-up and get badly beaten by Kilkenny - well, everybody thought they were going to hammer us anyway.
  The idea that the Welsh should support England at football when they hammer us at rugby is unacceptable.
  After a week off Town's A team got back to action with a bang hammering Harlow with ten goals and did their goal difference a power of good.
  The third team hammered Bradford University 5-1 at home with a hat-trick from M Bell and two goals from J Metcalfe.
  We got a glimpse of what may be possible when we hammered Doncaster in the opening game.
  Last season he hammered Lancashire for three centuries in the championship and league clashes at Old Trafford - and finished up a double loser.
  Elsewhere, re-crowned champions Glasgow Hawks rounded off their campaign by hammering bottom dogs Stirling County 47-8
  Yorkshire gave Steve Kirby the new ball on his return from a back injury but Fraser Watts hammered him for four boundaries and he was withdrawn from the attack but returned later to claim the last two wickets to fall.
  The lack of preparation caught up with him in the UK Championship last month, when he was hammered 9-2 by Stephen Lee in the quarter-finals.
  We beat them 21-6 and England hammered them 53-3, and it was a real low point for them.
  In the Keybury League under-sevens Group D, Myrtle Park hammered Gomersal C 11-0.
  The weakened side were hammered 62-2 and they could face another beating this week unless some players choose to return.
  Pakistan meanwhile hammers the Brits in their first county match at Worcester where Alimuddin scores a century.
  We've played against teams that have been worse than that and they've hammered us by more.
  The Fife side hammered their opponents 4-1 at Central Park while the Hampden side slipped up again with a goalless draw against Brechin City at Glebe Park.
  Canada bowed out in the tournament's first round after getting hammered by Norway and Russia.
  Swinging early and connecting often, the Giants hammered Curt Schilling and Brian Anderson in the first two games.
  ‘Anybody looking at the final score would think we had been hammered, but that was definitely not the case,’ he said.
  Britannia Farnworth produced a special show for the television when they hammered Prince Rupert 9-1 in the first round of the Division One Cup.
  Although Skolars were hammered by a record score in the last game against Batley, Moorby is still taking the game seriously.
  Synonyms
  trounce, defeat, beat, beat hollow, worst, best, overwhelm, rout, annihilate, bring someone to their knees
  informal thrash, clobber, lick, demolish, slaughter, murder, paste, pound, drub, give someone a drubbing, wipe the floor with, take to the cleaners, run rings round, walk all over, make mincemeat of, turn something inside out
  British informal stuff, marmalize
  North American informal shellac, cream, skunk, blow out
  US informal own
3Stock Market
informal Beat down the price of (a stock)
〈非正式〉压低（某股票）的价格
sceptical investors hammered the computer company's stock
疑心重重的投资者压低该计算机公司的股票价格。
Example sentencesExamples
- Its stock has been hammered because it's struggling with recent acquisitions, but Moore believes those are short-term problems.
- The share price got hammered because Irish shareholders are net sellers in the long run.
- If it is, then BA's earnings and share price will be hammered.
- Stock markets got hammered yesterday, as investors fled equities for cash, stunned by the latest WorldCom corporate scandal in the US.
- The big reason investors aren't hammering buyers' stocks: Most acquirers have become cautious about not overpaying.
4Stock Market
Declare (a person or company) a defaulter.
〔股票交易〕宣布（某人，某公司）无力偿债（或不履行债务）
Willis was hammered in the recession
Example sentencesExamples
- Meanwhile Woolner and Sumner-Jones were declared in default and ‘hammered’ on the Stock Exchange, meaning they could no longer trade.
- Such a member is said to be "hammered," and his name is struck off the list.

Phrases

come (or go) under the hammer

Be sold at an auction.
被拍卖
Example sentencesExamples
- A total of 12 medals belonging to Maj-Gen Drake went under the hammer at London auction house, Spink's, with the set estimated to be worth £20,000 without the elite VC honour.
- Just days ago the Elliott family silver and a collection of prized John Gould bird prints went under the hammer at a Melbourne auction.
- Two previously unheard recordings by John Lennon were sold for €216,000 yesterday when they went under the hammer at an auction of pop memorabilia.
- A photograph of Edward VIII taken during his notorious meeting with Adolf Hitler failed to sell at auction yesterday when it went under the hammer as part of a collection of private papers which belonged to his aide.
- It came under the hammer at the auction and was sold for E50.
- Mr Lang said Wednesday's auction was a very spirited event as the entire contents of the motel - 650 items - went under the hammer and were all sold.
- Around half a dozen bidders tried to snap up the Gooseholme public toilet on the banks of the River Kent when it went under the hammer at a property auction at Manchester Airport.
- The property of Glen Lodge at Culleenamore recently went under the hammer at an auction in Dublin.
- The most expensive piece of furniture ever to be sold at auction is due to go under the hammer once more on December 9.
- Yesterday it went under the hammer at prestigious auction house Bonhams in Knightsbridge, London, fetching £300.

hammer and tongs

informal Energetically, enthusiastically, or with great vehemence.
〈非正式〉有力地；热情地；猛烈地
racehorses going at it hammer and tongs
奋力冲刺的赛马。
Example sentencesExamples
- They have played with great tempo, and been so positive in going at their opponents hammer and tongs.
- They were eating steak pie suppers and arguing hammer and tongs when suddenly she got out.
- Poor old Gordon has to sleep on the other side of the house, while Cherie's going at it hammer and tongs, screaming like a banshee.
- Several commenters down below have gone at it hammer and tongs and have gotten periodically diverted into arguing that the nuclear attacks on civilian populations in Japan were just.
- How can you go at a ruling hammer and tongs when you have this sort of culture?
- On the pitch two gallant teams went at it hammer and tongs while off it, their passionate supporters kept up an incessant cacophony, which will not, I'll warrant, be equalled at the county final.
- It went into extra-time, you had two world-class teams going at it hammer and tongs.
- We expected Clare to come at us hammer and tongs, but it wasn't until we began to create space for ourselves up front in the closing quarter that the tide turned in our favour.
- On Thursday, she went hammer and tongs at the Government when condemning the arrest of women employees in connection with the ongoing State-wide strike by service organisations.
- Give them a different way to go about discussing ideas and the issues that face the world, and they go at it hammer and tongs.
Synonyms
strenuously, with great vigour, strongly, powerfully, potently, forcefully, with force, forcibly, energetically, aggressively, heartily, eagerly, with eagerness, enthusiastically, with enthusiasm, with great effort, with all one's might, with might and main, with a will, for dear life, for all one is worth, to the best of one's abilities, as best one can, all out, with a vengeance, fiercely, intensely, hard, as hard as possible, as hard as one can, with all the stops out, like the devil, like the deuce, at full tilt

Phrasal Verbs

hammer something out

1Laboriously work out the details of a plan or agreement.
详细推敲出，悉力打造出（计划或协议）
Example sentencesExamples
- But the conditions are that the guerrillas call a ceasefire and cessation of hostilities - a non-starter as the rebels have always said a ceasefire could only be called after the details of a peace agreement had been hammered out.
- Further details will be hammered out at working-level talks in the near future.
- We finally hammered it out by the end of the summer.
- As a writer or producer, you find yourself trapped in the middle and at first, you want to tell them, ‘Hey… you guys hammer it out and let me know what the decision is.’
- In the end, there was too much opposition from business and development interests, so the CIR was put on hold while the superstore plan was hammered out.
- Now, sources say that votes could come as early as next Wednesday in the House and Thursday in the Senate, when all the details are hammered out.
- Scrap the Debate Commission and let the campaigns hammer it out between themselves each election.
- The ministers will ask the officials to leave the room and hammer it out among themselves.
- Each one thinking that the other is going to get some minor advantage by pulling some trick, and it just makes it hard to hammer this stuff out.
- In each case, it's not the solution they hammer out that matters; it's the process of hammering it out.
Synonyms
thrash out, work out, agree on, sort out, decide on, bring about, effect, produce, broker, negotiate, reach an agreement on, come to terms about, come to a decision on, come to a satisfactory conclusion on, form a resolution about
2Play something on a piano loudly and unskilfully.

Derivatives

hammerless

adjective ˈhamələsˈhæmərləs

The double-barrel shotgun, preferably the hammerless kind that ‘on-safes’ itself each time the action is opened, has served the same function on the shotgun side for decades.
Example sentencesExamples
- The first Franchis were exposed-hammer side-by-side shotguns that quickly evolved into a hammerless design based upon a Holland & Holland-type side lock system.
- The shift from pins to hammerless equipment improved the sustainability of a finite resource - some cracks were becoming nothing more than a series of pin scars - and, consequently, improved the sustainability of the sport itself.
- ‘We have taken the striker-fired hammerless slide and barrel portion prevalent in our European competitors and integrated them into the 1911 handset,’ said Brent Mounts of Alchemy Arms.
- ‘The 642 Airweight is hammerless, easy to use and a little bit less expensive than some of the new things that are on the market in lightweight frames,’ Ball said.

Origin

Old English hamor, hamer, of Germanic origin: related to Dutch hamer, German Hammer, and Old Norse hamarr 'rock'. The original sense was probably 'stone tool'.

Old English hamor has a Germanic origin, related to German Hammer, and Old Norse hamarr ‘rock, crag’. The original sense was probably ‘stone tool or weapon’. The expression hammer and tongs (early 18th century) meaning ‘with energy and speed’ comes from the blacksmith showering blows on the iron taken by the help of tongs from the fire.

Rhymes

Alabama, clamour (US clamor), crammer, gamma, glamour (US glamor), gnamma, grammar, jammer, lamber, mamma, rammer, shammer, slammer, stammer, yammer

Hammer²

(also Hammer Film Productions)

proper nounˈhamə

1A British film company founded in 1948, known especially for its horror films.
1. 1.1usually as modifier A film produced by Hammer Film Productions.
  a Hammer horror movie

Definition of hammer in US English:

hammer

nounˈhamərˈhæmər

1A tool with a heavy metal head mounted at right angles at the end of a handle, used for jobs such as breaking things and driving in nails.
锤子，榔头
Example sentencesExamples
- I moved on to the engine room and took a good look around the engine and workshop area, which still held tools, spanners and hammers!
- Most of the project requires basic wood-working tools - a circular saw, a saber saw, an electric drill, a hammer, and a nail set.
- Although the small shop houses a grinder-buffer, drill, bench sander and electric saw, most of the tools are primitive looking hammers, mallets and anvils.
- Then pull out the nails with a hammer or locking pliers.
- Before you hit your sales reps with a lot of questions or break out the hammer and nails to begin building displays, do an assessment of your shop.
- If all you have in your home is a broken screwdriver, a hammer without a handle, and one wrench you hope will happen to fit whatever bolt you encounter, you need some help.
- It wasn't until early last fall that I actually pulled it out of the plastic tub that houses my hammer, nails, and other unused tools.
- To drill through the tile you will need a hammer, a nail set, an electric drill and a masonry bit a little larger than the diameter of the screws you use.
- That wood was probably going to go to some company and be used to make door stops or handles for axes or hammers or something like that.
- They have nail guns, hammers, drills, the whole lot; everything they need to facilitate the destruction.
- Grip pressure should be firm but not tight - about the way you would grip a hammer's handle while driving nails.
- To do this, he says, you need two basic tools: a hammer and a screwdriver.
- They would also have used tools such as planes, axes, adzes, draw knives, wedges, knives, chisels, hammers, mallets, awls, gouges, and spoon augers (a type of drill).
- I also need a hammer and nails, picture hooks and the step ladder.
- In addition to Mike's skill and knowledge on the golf course, he's pretty handy with a hammer and nails and has quite a selection of tools in the garage.
- Use a hammer and nail set or an electric drill with countersink bit to join the frame pieces.
- Use a ball-peen hammer or a block of wood and a nail hammer to knock the tool head out of the ferule on the handle.
- Much of the work is done manually using basic tools like hammers, shovels, axes and mammoties, a spade-like implement common throughout Sri Lanka.
- He began the process of clipping various tools to his brother's belt - nail gun, replacement clips, throwing chisels, hammers, saw blades, sander, drill bits.
- Use a hammer and nail set to drive them below the surface.
Synonyms
mallet, beetle, gavel
1. 1.1 A machine with a metal block for giving a heavy blow to something.
  锻压机
  Example sentencesExamples
  A hydraulic hammer is basically a hydraulically powered reciprocating piston inside of a body.
  Hydraulic hammers and breakers, attached to big excavators or scudding skid-steers, announce demolition.
  Shaw points out that hydraulic hammers and pulverizer attachments have allowed them to pick up demolition work on bridges and commercial and industrial buildings.
2. 1.2 An auctioneer's mallet for indicating by a sharp tap that an article is sold.
  （拍卖师用的）小木槌
  Example sentencesExamples
  A auctioneer lowers his hammer as a painting believed to be a work by Vincent Van Gogh is sold for US $550,000 in Tokyo yesterday.
  Worrall's book is a warning to anyone lured by the auctioneer's hammer.
  This slim fast-talking man is a whiz with an auction hammer.
  City fans will be given a chance to get hold of their own piece of football history when items from Maine Road go under the auctioneer's hammers.
  Before I knew it my arm flew up, the auctioneer banged the hammer down and she was mine!
3. 1.3 A part of a mechanism that hits another part to make it work, such as one exploding the charge in a gun or one striking the strings of a piano.
  （机械装置中用来击打另一部件使之运作的）小锤；（枪炮的）击铁；（钢琴等的）音锤
  Example sentencesExamples
  If struck a hard blow, the hammers are designed to shear rather than override the sears.
  The safety also blocks the hammer from contact with the firing pin.
  On the other hand, Debussy seems at times to call for a delicacy beyond the capability of fingers or for a piano which has no hammers at all.
  Frames and slides are made to his specifications by a vendor, as are screws and springs, but Brown machines sears, hammers, safeties and most of the other small parts.
  The SFS adds a mechanical hammer block to prevent the hammer from hitting the firing pin unless the trigger is pulled.
2A metal ball, typically weighing 16 pounds (7.3 kg), attached to a wire for throwing in an athletic contest.
（体育中的）链球
Example sentencesExamples
- It is an Olympic sport, like rifle shooting, and throwing the hammer or the discus.
- And what about if the hockey was taking place on the same field that they were throwing the hammer and javelin.
- He towered above others and could throw the hammer to a distance of around 190 feet.
- For Skyrac AC Nicola Jackson threw the hammer 39.22m for sixth place.
- Aidan Kelly scored top points when finishing in 1st place in the hammer with a throw of 36.24.
1. 2.1the hammer The sport of throwing a metal ball attached to a wire.
  Example sentencesExamples
  The City of Glasgow athlete has thrown 55.10m in the hammer this season - well over the qualification mark for the World Juniors.
  Olympic hammer champion Szymon Ziolkowski of Poland set a new world championship record to win gold ahead of Asian record holder Koji Murofushi.
  We are very strong here in Sligo on the track, but quite weak in some field events such as pole vault, high jump and hammer.
  There is also a track surface to provide a run-up for the javelin meaning the only disciplines the facility cannot currently play host to is the hammer and pole vault.
  In the under-17 events, James Nagle won gold in the hammer and shot putt contests.
3
another term for malleus
Example sentencesExamples
- There they became the anvil and the hammer, minute bones that transmit sound from the eardrum to the stirrup bone and, ultimately, to the inner ear.
- The findings are drawn from examination of the hammer, anvil and stirrup bones in the ears of Homo heidelbergensis fossils, also known as Boxgrove Man.
- The drum vibrates with the sound and rattles three small bones: the hammer, anvil and stirrup.

verbˈhamərˈhæmər

[with object]

1Hit or beat (something) with a hammer or similar object.
用锤（或类似物）反复敲打（某物）
they are made by heating and hammering pieces of iron
Example sentencesExamples
- Joe and Serena are talking about their new loves when Paul hammers the door down demanding to know why she graffitied his wall.
- With the birds already in the construction I couldn't start hammering a new thing onto it, nor could they really be moved for fear of traumatising the newborn ducklings.
- No one here is hammering a list of demands on a church door.
- I hammered it to death repeatedly with the book for several minutes.
- A haze of fragrant wood-smoke rose from his furnace; workers sawed and hammered metal, others worked meticulously on figurines which had been rough cast.
- The surgeon then packs cement along the distal femur and hammers the femoral implant into place.
- The kids, from knee-high to tall as any grown up, sanded the round bone discs, and hammered a design onto a metal plate that Yip riveted to the face of the disc.
- The men were hammering wooden boards with cartoon - like ferocity.
- Of course that first thing that sprang to mind was lockjaw, but I've not been hammering any rusty nails recently, so it's unlikely.
- A golden spike was hammered into the ground to symbolize the momentous occasion.
- Toe plates are then cut from sheet metal, and pieces of iron are hammered and twisted into shape to form soles and heels.
- That way when you are hammering the post spike you are hitting the wooden post piece, not the metal.
- As a boy he was taught to read by feeling upholstery studs hammered into pieces of wood in the shapes of letters and numbers.
- He has three men at work on the deck, and with a chisel, they are hammering little bits of cotton waste into the tiny spaces between the beams that form the deck.
- Far off to his left, he could hear Em and the Marns boy hammering planks to the tree.
- Jesus is flung on the rough timber and iron spikes are hammered through his hands and feet.
- The best type of helm was hammered and raised out of a single piece of iron and was therefore stronger than a riveted one.
- After that nails are hammered through the pre-punched holes as the pieces are attached to the wood.
- It's difficult to have a chilled and relaxed weekend when it's accompanied by the sound of Dominic hammering floorboards, Dominic hammering walls, Dominic hammering doors and window frames.
- I'm serious: some guy in my neighbourhood has been hammering the same nail for about eight months now.
- The melted Stones were beat and hammered into weapons called the Behemoths.
- We heard the rhythmic pounding as the spear points were hammered onto shafts of ash wood.
- ‘In old times they started making gold leaf by hammering gold between pieces of leather,’ Tsaneva explains.
Synonyms
beat, forge, shape, form, mould, fashion, make
1. 1.1no object Strike or knock at or on something violently with one's hand or with a hammer or other object.
  （用手、锤子等用力）击打，敲打
  she hammered on his door
  她猛敲他的门。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The equaliser came in the final minute when Lee Buggie latched onto a throughball and hammered a shot past the keeper.
  The girlfriend, Peggy, knocks on the door of the room where Lemmon is furiously hammering away on his typewriter.
  On a coffee table in their sitting room stood two cups of cold coffee and the remains of two cream cakes - all that was left of the snack they abandoned last night when a neighbour hammered on their door and told them they had to get out.
  Stephen then hammered on the door of a house to get help and an elderly man let him in and comforted him for half-an-hour before he walked for five minutes up the road to his home.
  Played in ideal conditions the Charlestown lads settled quickly and took the lead through David Caffrey who beat three players before hammering the ball to the net.
  I've been sawing and hammering away at that wood we rescued from behind the mall, and made a couple of lovely rough crates for my home-made goodies to go into.
  People hammered on train doors and screamed to get out, while crowds in the station ran in all directions, protecting their heads, to get away from the chaos.
  However, I broke the silence as I hammered on the door to attract attention.
  I hammered on the door of my brother's room and later on the restroom door.
  There are, as I write, three or four thousand aroused woodpeckers hammering away at my property.
  However Waterford were soon back on the attack and Fitzgerald went close once more as he hammered a right foot shot off the crossbar with Devlin beaten.
  He hammered on the shield again, tears of rage and frustration flowing freely down his cheeks.
  Yappyfox, the red fox who so proudly hammered on his cymbal for the previous nine hours, takes the stage and begins a classic instrumental song.
  He hammers away at the keys, periodically ripping the paper out of the machine, thrusting it into the hands of whichever cabinet minister has drawn the short straw, and gasping, ‘here, give them this.’
  Both men hammered on the rooms along the corridor to rouse other guests.
  Indeed, Kilbride might have rubbed salt in with big Jim Fitz hammering a shot off the crossbar in the closing moments before the nimble Nolan brought the scoring to an end with his fifth point from a free.
  Harlan took the dagger and hammered it down onto the desk so loudly that it made even Camelot jump.
  This is as far as we go because rock breakers are still hammering away here, slowly pulverising the rock to clear trenches for drains.
  He clapped Bligh's arm, and then turned and hammered on the door.
  Both Mr Noble and Mr Roper then hammered on the room doors along the corridor to rouse other guests before dashing upstairs to wake people on the top floor.
  Synonyms
  batter, pummel, beat, bang, pound
2. 1.2hammer awayno object Work hard and persistently.
  拼命干，作不懈努力
  for six months I have been hammering away at a plot
  Example sentencesExamples
  Sean Barker, Andrew Fester and Bob Hardy kept hammering away at the home defence and Mark Allen capitalised with a try in the corner to cap a fine display.
  Rais has been hammering away at the judiciary issue.
  She hammers away at her themes, supposedly ironizing irony.
  During this time period, the opposition party usually has a group of potential presidential candidates hammering away at the incumbent.
  And they kept hammering away right up until the elections that ETA was a prime suspect.
  You're going to see the prosecution hammering away at the Modesto Police Department throughout this entire process.
  Depends on the effectiveness of the Democrats at hammering away at that issue.
  We keep hammering away at these shortfalls in our system.
  After hammering away through ruck after ruck, an Eric Miller surge caught the English offside and Humphreys kicked the precious points.
  I continue to hammer away at the importance of public broadcasting, and the importance of saving our book publishing industry.
  And we'll take you live to the Scott Peterson murder trial where prosecutors are hammering away on his character.
  While the above has been one stream of outpouring in the country's press, the other has been to hammer away at what many columnists saw as a confession-and-pardon charade.
  While the company continues to hammer away at the upscale appliance market in the United States, it has opened its once-proprietary control protocol to other companies.
  They amassed a further 47 points without reply and were still hammering away at what remained of the shreds of Italy's defence even as the clock ticked into injury time.
  Still, current events are relentlessly hammering away at the idea that ethnicity can and should be the foundation of nationality.
  Yeah, but you don't see the media hammering away at that issue.
  SGI continues to be happy hammering away on the high end graphics and scientific computing markets.
  SGI continues to hammer away on the graphics and high performance computing markets that brought it fame.
  The flashpoint of debate and controversy is the status of women, and Makhmalbaf's films, along with those of his wife and daughter, continue to hammer away at this theme.
  Synonyms
  work hard, labour, slog away, plod away, grind away, slave away, work like a trojan, work like a dog, keep one's nose to the grindstone
3. 1.3with object Drive or secure (something) by striking with or as if with a hammer.
  用（锤子等）将…敲入，把…钉牢
  he hammered the tack in
  他将头钉钉入。
  he was hammering leather soles onto a pair of small boots
  他正给一双小靴子钉皮底。
  Synonyms
  beat, forge, shape, form, mould, fashion, make
4. 1.4hammer something in/into Instill (an attitude, idea, or habit) forcefully or repeatedly.
  the “diversity is good” message is hammered into them
  Example sentencesExamples
  If Democrats don't soon begin to strongly support serious movement to renewable energy sources - including hammering the idea in the corporate media - then Republicans may do just that.
  Indeed, the point was hammered in by a voice-overed narrator contributing fatuous observations like ‘The huge gulf between rich and poor highlights how lucky we are in New Zealand!’
  The deal is simple, and he hammers it in more specifically: ‘Do not play with our security, and spontaneously you will secure yourself.’
  Synonyms
  drum, instil, inculcate, knock, drive, din
2informal Attack or criticize forcefully and relentlessly.
〈非正式〉猛烈抨击，无情批评
he got hammered for an honest mistake
他因一无心的错误而受到严厉的批评。
Example sentencesExamples
- It hammers the company for not detailing the assumed rates of return at other telecom companies.
- They might have hammered him for exposing a unit to theft or damage.
- No doubt there were hundreds of agitprop dramas in the 1950s hammering Joe McCarthy's red-baiting campaign.
- They just attacked me, hammered me at the book signing.
- He is getting hammered for allowing these words to be in the State of the Union address.
- If the Government is increasingly hammering journalists here, there has to be a sea change in the way we respond.
- Some of the critics in the county who had hammered Corkery for more than a decade were lining up Masters as their next legitimate target.
- He got five years for the fraud that never happened, and the system seemed eager to hammer him.
- He has been hammered in the newspapers and by the critics.
- The press in America have hammered him for not winning any of the last four, but I would like to have that problem.
- Large goannas are the ones that are likely to be hammered pretty badly by cane toads.
- Health professionals are mobilising to condemn the government, propose major structural reforms, and hammer the ineffectual minister.
- It would probably do the culture secretary the world of good to go, even if she is hammered for the new three-year deal for arts funding from the government, announced last month.
- It looks like the Republicans are planning on hammering him on that one.
- The inquiry counsel annoyed the press by attacking their coverage and got hammered himself as a result.
- This is the first time I've ever had a case where in a shoplifting situation somebody has been hammered this relentlessly.
- The author has been hammered by critics into a tiny ball of bloody gunk over the last few months.
- Unfortunately we are hammered by the Government if we don't do anything - and by the public if we do.
- In his cross-examinations, he has hammered the witnesses with questions about rebel activity in their villages.
- It seemed harsh to hammer him for following what must have been an agreed policy and harsher still when he was forced to play on the retreat all afternoon.
Synonyms
criticize, censure, attack, condemn, castigate, chastise, lambaste, pillory, reprimand, rebuke, admonish, remonstrate with, take to task, haul over the coals, berate, reproach, reprove
1. 2.1 Utterly defeat in a game or contest.
  （在比赛中）彻底击败，大获全胜
  they hammered St. Louis 6–0
  他们以4比0大败圣米伦队。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The Fife side hammered their opponents 4-1 at Central Park while the Hampden side slipped up again with a goalless draw against Brechin City at Glebe Park.
  The idea that the Welsh should support England at football when they hammer us at rugby is unacceptable.
  In the Keybury League under-sevens Group D, Myrtle Park hammered Gomersal C 11-0.
  The third team hammered Bradford University 5-1 at home with a hat-trick from M Bell and two goals from J Metcalfe.
  In previous years you might have a slip-up and get badly beaten by Kilkenny - well, everybody thought they were going to hammer us anyway.
  Pakistan meanwhile hammers the Brits in their first county match at Worcester where Alimuddin scores a century.
  Yorkshire gave Steve Kirby the new ball on his return from a back injury but Fraser Watts hammered him for four boundaries and he was withdrawn from the attack but returned later to claim the last two wickets to fall.
  Swinging early and connecting often, the Giants hammered Curt Schilling and Brian Anderson in the first two games.
  Last season he hammered Lancashire for three centuries in the championship and league clashes at Old Trafford - and finished up a double loser.
  The lack of preparation caught up with him in the UK Championship last month, when he was hammered 9-2 by Stephen Lee in the quarter-finals.
  We beat them 21-6 and England hammered them 53-3, and it was a real low point for them.
  Britannia Farnworth produced a special show for the television when they hammered Prince Rupert 9-1 in the first round of the Division One Cup.
  The weakened side were hammered 62-2 and they could face another beating this week unless some players choose to return.
  We got a glimpse of what may be possible when we hammered Doncaster in the opening game.
  We've played against teams that have been worse than that and they've hammered us by more.
  ‘Anybody looking at the final score would think we had been hammered, but that was definitely not the case,’ he said.
  After a week off Town's A team got back to action with a bang hammering Harlow with ten goals and did their goal difference a power of good.
  Although Skolars were hammered by a record score in the last game against Batley, Moorby is still taking the game seriously.
  Canada bowed out in the tournament's first round after getting hammered by Norway and Russia.
  Elsewhere, re-crowned champions Glasgow Hawks rounded off their campaign by hammering bottom dogs Stirling County 47-8
  Synonyms
  trounce, defeat, beat, beat hollow, worst, best, overwhelm, rout, annihilate, bring someone to their knees

Phrases

come (or go) under the hammer

Be sold at an auction.
被拍卖
Example sentencesExamples
- Yesterday it went under the hammer at prestigious auction house Bonhams in Knightsbridge, London, fetching £300.
- A photograph of Edward VIII taken during his notorious meeting with Adolf Hitler failed to sell at auction yesterday when it went under the hammer as part of a collection of private papers which belonged to his aide.
- Just days ago the Elliott family silver and a collection of prized John Gould bird prints went under the hammer at a Melbourne auction.
- The most expensive piece of furniture ever to be sold at auction is due to go under the hammer once more on December 9.
- A total of 12 medals belonging to Maj-Gen Drake went under the hammer at London auction house, Spink's, with the set estimated to be worth £20,000 without the elite VC honour.
- Two previously unheard recordings by John Lennon were sold for €216,000 yesterday when they went under the hammer at an auction of pop memorabilia.
- Around half a dozen bidders tried to snap up the Gooseholme public toilet on the banks of the River Kent when it went under the hammer at a property auction at Manchester Airport.
- The property of Glen Lodge at Culleenamore recently went under the hammer at an auction in Dublin.
- It came under the hammer at the auction and was sold for E50.
- Mr Lang said Wednesday's auction was a very spirited event as the entire contents of the motel - 650 items - went under the hammer and were all sold.

hammer and tongs

informal Energetically, enthusiastically, or with great vehemence.
〈非正式〉有力地；热情地；猛烈地
all the way to the bottom, Larry could hear them clanging away, hammer and tongs
Example sentencesExamples
- Several commenters down below have gone at it hammer and tongs and have gotten periodically diverted into arguing that the nuclear attacks on civilian populations in Japan were just.
- They were eating steak pie suppers and arguing hammer and tongs when suddenly she got out.
- How can you go at a ruling hammer and tongs when you have this sort of culture?
- They have played with great tempo, and been so positive in going at their opponents hammer and tongs.
- On Thursday, she went hammer and tongs at the Government when condemning the arrest of women employees in connection with the ongoing State-wide strike by service organisations.
- Give them a different way to go about discussing ideas and the issues that face the world, and they go at it hammer and tongs.
- Poor old Gordon has to sleep on the other side of the house, while Cherie's going at it hammer and tongs, screaming like a banshee.
- It went into extra-time, you had two world-class teams going at it hammer and tongs.
- On the pitch two gallant teams went at it hammer and tongs while off it, their passionate supporters kept up an incessant cacophony, which will not, I'll warrant, be equalled at the county final.
- We expected Clare to come at us hammer and tongs, but it wasn't until we began to create space for ourselves up front in the closing quarter that the tide turned in our favour.
Synonyms
strenuously, with great vigour, strongly, powerfully, potently, forcefully, with force, forcibly, energetically, aggressively, heartily, eagerly, with eagerness, enthusiastically, with enthusiasm, with great effort, with all one's might, with might and main, with a will, for dear life, for all one is worth, to the best of one's abilities, as best one can, all out, with a vengeance, fiercely, intensely, hard, as hard as possible, as hard as one can, with all the stops out, like the devil, like the deuce, at full tilt

Phrasal Verbs

hammer something out

1Make something by shaping metal with a hammer.
锤成，锻造出
Example sentencesExamples
- At first brass or copper sheet was made by hammering it out by hand.
- Ancient blacksmiths heated the iron ore and then hammered out iron spears and swords.
- The blacksmith who hammered it out from a single piece of stock was skilled at his trade.
- This might be what was so puzzling to Moshe about the Menorah being hammered out from one piece of gold.
2Laboriously work out the details of a plan or agreement.
详细推敲出，悉力打造出（计划或协议）
a deal was being hammered out with the Dutch museums
正在悉力与荷兰博物馆达成一笔交易。
Example sentencesExamples
- But the conditions are that the guerrillas call a ceasefire and cessation of hostilities - a non-starter as the rebels have always said a ceasefire could only be called after the details of a peace agreement had been hammered out.
- Now, sources say that votes could come as early as next Wednesday in the House and Thursday in the Senate, when all the details are hammered out.
- Scrap the Debate Commission and let the campaigns hammer it out between themselves each election.
- As a writer or producer, you find yourself trapped in the middle and at first, you want to tell them, ‘Hey… you guys hammer it out and let me know what the decision is.’
- Each one thinking that the other is going to get some minor advantage by pulling some trick, and it just makes it hard to hammer this stuff out.
- In the end, there was too much opposition from business and development interests, so the CIR was put on hold while the superstore plan was hammered out.
- Further details will be hammered out at working-level talks in the near future.
- In each case, it's not the solution they hammer out that matters; it's the process of hammering it out.
- The ministers will ask the officials to leave the room and hammer it out among themselves.
- We finally hammered it out by the end of the summer.
Synonyms
thrash out, work out, agree on, sort out, decide on, bring about, effect, produce, broker, negotiate, reach an agreement on, come to terms about, come to a decision on, come to a satisfactory conclusion on, form a resolution about
3Play a tune loudly or clumsily, especially on the piano.
（尤指用钢琴）笨拙而大声地演奏，敲击出
Example sentencesExamples
- "Walking the Dog" was followed by the final tune of the first set, "Snake Rag", hammered out at a 140 tempo.
- We had worked on it at sound checks, but hadn't really started hammering it out that morning before he got there.

Origin

Old English hamor, hamer, of Germanic origin: related to Dutch hamer, German Hammer, and Old Norse hamarr ‘rock’. The original sense was probably ‘stone tool’.

词汇	hammer
释义	hammer¹ noun ˈhamə 1A tool with a heavy metal head mounted at right angles at the end of a handle, used for jobs such as breaking things and driving in nails. 锤子，榔头 Example sentencesExamples It wasn't until early last fall that I actually pulled it out of the plastic tub that houses my hammer, nails, and other unused tools. Much of the work is done manually using basic tools like hammers, shovels, axes and mammoties, a spade-like implement common throughout Sri Lanka. He began the process of clipping various tools to his brother's belt - nail gun, replacement clips, throwing chisels, hammers, saw blades, sander, drill bits. They have nail guns, hammers, drills, the whole lot; everything they need to facilitate the destruction. In addition to Mike's skill and knowledge on the golf course, he's pretty handy with a hammer and nails and has quite a selection of tools in the garage. Use a ball-peen hammer or a block of wood and a nail hammer to knock the tool head out of the ferule on the handle. Most of the project requires basic wood-working tools - a circular saw, a saber saw, an electric drill, a hammer, and a nail set. To drill through the tile you will need a hammer, a nail set, an electric drill and a masonry bit a little larger than the diameter of the screws you use. Use a hammer and nail set or an electric drill with countersink bit to join the frame pieces. Before you hit your sales reps with a lot of questions or break out the hammer and nails to begin building displays, do an assessment of your shop. I also need a hammer and nails, picture hooks and the step ladder. Use a hammer and nail set to drive them below the surface. Although the small shop houses a grinder-buffer, drill, bench sander and electric saw, most of the tools are primitive looking hammers, mallets and anvils. That wood was probably going to go to some company and be used to make door stops or handles for axes or hammers or something like that. Grip pressure should be firm but not tight - about the way you would grip a hammer's handle while driving nails. If all you have in your home is a broken screwdriver, a hammer without a handle, and one wrench you hope will happen to fit whatever bolt you encounter, you need some help. Then pull out the nails with a hammer or locking pliers. To do this, he says, you need two basic tools: a hammer and a screwdriver. I moved on to the engine room and took a good look around the engine and workshop area, which still held tools, spanners and hammers! They would also have used tools such as planes, axes, adzes, draw knives, wedges, knives, chisels, hammers, mallets, awls, gouges, and spoon augers (a type of drill). Synonyms mallet, beetle, gavel 1.1 A machine with a metal block for giving a heavy blow to something. 锻压机 Example sentencesExamples Hydraulic hammers and breakers, attached to big excavators or scudding skid-steers, announce demolition. A hydraulic hammer is basically a hydraulically powered reciprocating piston inside of a body. Shaw points out that hydraulic hammers and pulverizer attachments have allowed them to pick up demolition work on bridges and commercial and industrial buildings. 1.2 An auctioneer's gavel, tapped to indicate a sale. Example sentencesExamples A auctioneer lowers his hammer as a painting believed to be a work by Vincent Van Gogh is sold for US $550,000 in Tokyo yesterday. Worrall's book is a warning to anyone lured by the auctioneer's hammer. Before I knew it my arm flew up, the auctioneer banged the hammer down and she was mine! This slim fast-talking man is a whiz with an auction hammer. City fans will be given a chance to get hold of their own piece of football history when items from Maine Road go under the auctioneer's hammers. 1.3 A part of a mechanism that hits another part to make it work, such as one exploding the charge in a gun or one striking the strings of a piano. （机械装置中用来击打另一部件使之运作的）小锤；（枪炮的）击铁；（钢琴等的）音锤 Example sentencesExamples Frames and slides are made to his specifications by a vendor, as are screws and springs, but Brown machines sears, hammers, safeties and most of the other small parts. The SFS adds a mechanical hammer block to prevent the hammer from hitting the firing pin unless the trigger is pulled. The safety also blocks the hammer from contact with the firing pin. If struck a hard blow, the hammers are designed to shear rather than override the sears. On the other hand, Debussy seems at times to call for a delicacy beyond the capability of fingers or for a piano which has no hammers at all. 2A metal ball of about 7 kg attached to a wire for throwing in an athletic contest. （体育中的）链球 Example sentencesExamples He towered above others and could throw the hammer to a distance of around 190 feet. For Skyrac AC Nicola Jackson threw the hammer 39.22m for sixth place. Aidan Kelly scored top points when finishing in 1st place in the hammer with a throw of 36.24. It is an Olympic sport, like rifle shooting, and throwing the hammer or the discus. And what about if the hockey was taking place on the same field that they were throwing the hammer and javelin. 2.1the hammer The sport of throwing a hammer. 链球（运动） Example sentencesExamples There is also a track surface to provide a run-up for the javelin meaning the only disciplines the facility cannot currently play host to is the hammer and pole vault. Olympic hammer champion Szymon Ziolkowski of Poland set a new world championship record to win gold ahead of Asian record holder Koji Murofushi. The City of Glasgow athlete has thrown 55.10m in the hammer this season - well over the qualification mark for the World Juniors. In the under-17 events, James Nagle won gold in the hammer and shot putt contests. We are very strong here in Sligo on the track, but quite weak in some field events such as pole vault, high jump and hammer. 3 another term for malleus Example sentencesExamples The findings are drawn from examination of the hammer, anvil and stirrup bones in the ears of Homo heidelbergensis fossils, also known as Boxgrove Man. There they became the anvil and the hammer, minute bones that transmit sound from the eardrum to the stirrup bone and, ultimately, to the inner ear. The drum vibrates with the sound and rattles three small bones: the hammer, anvil and stirrup. verb ˈhamə [with object] 1Hit or beat (something) repeatedly with a hammer or similar object. 用锤（或类似物）反复敲打（某物） he hammered the tack in 他将头钉钉入。 Example sentencesExamples Joe and Serena are talking about their new loves when Paul hammers the door down demanding to know why she graffitied his wall. The best type of helm was hammered and raised out of a single piece of iron and was therefore stronger than a riveted one. The melted Stones were beat and hammered into weapons called the Behemoths. Toe plates are then cut from sheet metal, and pieces of iron are hammered and twisted into shape to form soles and heels. Far off to his left, he could hear Em and the Marns boy hammering planks to the tree. The men were hammering wooden boards with cartoon - like ferocity. We heard the rhythmic pounding as the spear points were hammered onto shafts of ash wood. That way when you are hammering the post spike you are hitting the wooden post piece, not the metal. The surgeon then packs cement along the distal femur and hammers the femoral implant into place. A golden spike was hammered into the ground to symbolize the momentous occasion. As a boy he was taught to read by feeling upholstery studs hammered into pieces of wood in the shapes of letters and numbers. It's difficult to have a chilled and relaxed weekend when it's accompanied by the sound of Dominic hammering floorboards, Dominic hammering walls, Dominic hammering doors and window frames. Jesus is flung on the rough timber and iron spikes are hammered through his hands and feet. I hammered it to death repeatedly with the book for several minutes. I'm serious: some guy in my neighbourhood has been hammering the same nail for about eight months now. No one here is hammering a list of demands on a church door. With the birds already in the construction I couldn't start hammering a new thing onto it, nor could they really be moved for fear of traumatising the newborn ducklings. After that nails are hammered through the pre-punched holes as the pieces are attached to the wood. ‘In old times they started making gold leaf by hammering gold between pieces of leather,’ Tsaneva explains. Of course that first thing that sprang to mind was lockjaw, but I've not been hammering any rusty nails recently, so it's unlikely. The kids, from knee-high to tall as any grown up, sanded the round bone discs, and hammered a design onto a metal plate that Yip riveted to the face of the disc. A haze of fragrant wood-smoke rose from his furnace; workers sawed and hammered metal, others worked meticulously on figurines which had been rough cast. He has three men at work on the deck, and with a chisel, they are hammering little bits of cotton waste into the tiny spaces between the beams that form the deck. Synonyms beat, forge, shape, form, mould, fashion, make 1.1no object Strike or knock at or on something violently with one's hand or with a hammer or other object. （用手、锤子等用力）击打，敲打 she hammered on his door 她猛敲他的门。 with object he hammered the ball wildly over the crossbar Example sentencesExamples On a coffee table in their sitting room stood two cups of cold coffee and the remains of two cream cakes - all that was left of the snack they abandoned last night when a neighbour hammered on their door and told them they had to get out. Played in ideal conditions the Charlestown lads settled quickly and took the lead through David Caffrey who beat three players before hammering the ball to the net. He hammered on the shield again, tears of rage and frustration flowing freely down his cheeks. Indeed, Kilbride might have rubbed salt in with big Jim Fitz hammering a shot off the crossbar in the closing moments before the nimble Nolan brought the scoring to an end with his fifth point from a free. Stephen then hammered on the door of a house to get help and an elderly man let him in and comforted him for half-an-hour before he walked for five minutes up the road to his home. Harlan took the dagger and hammered it down onto the desk so loudly that it made even Camelot jump. The girlfriend, Peggy, knocks on the door of the room where Lemmon is furiously hammering away on his typewriter. There are, as I write, three or four thousand aroused woodpeckers hammering away at my property. Yappyfox, the red fox who so proudly hammered on his cymbal for the previous nine hours, takes the stage and begins a classic instrumental song. However Waterford were soon back on the attack and Fitzgerald went close once more as he hammered a right foot shot off the crossbar with Devlin beaten. People hammered on train doors and screamed to get out, while crowds in the station ran in all directions, protecting their heads, to get away from the chaos. However, I broke the silence as I hammered on the door to attract attention. The equaliser came in the final minute when Lee Buggie latched onto a throughball and hammered a shot past the keeper. I hammered on the door of my brother's room and later on the restroom door. He hammers away at the keys, periodically ripping the paper out of the machine, thrusting it into the hands of whichever cabinet minister has drawn the short straw, and gasping, ‘here, give them this.’ This is as far as we go because rock breakers are still hammering away here, slowly pulverising the rock to clear trenches for drains. Both Mr Noble and Mr Roper then hammered on the room doors along the corridor to rouse other guests before dashing upstairs to wake people on the top floor. Both men hammered on the rooms along the corridor to rouse other guests. He clapped Bligh's arm, and then turned and hammered on the door. I've been sawing and hammering away at that wood we rescued from behind the mall, and made a couple of lovely rough crates for my home-made goodies to go into. Synonyms batter, pummel, beat, bang, pound strike, hit, knock on, thump on cudgel, bludgeon, club, pelt, assail, thwack informal bash, wallop, clobber, whack 1.2hammer awayno object Work hard and persistently. 拼命干，作不懈努力 they must hammer away at these twin themes day after day 他们必须日复一日地拼命工作以完成这两篇紧密相关的论文。 Example sentencesExamples During this time period, the opposition party usually has a group of potential presidential candidates hammering away at the incumbent. They amassed a further 47 points without reply and were still hammering away at what remained of the shreds of Italy's defence even as the clock ticked into injury time. The flashpoint of debate and controversy is the status of women, and Makhmalbaf's films, along with those of his wife and daughter, continue to hammer away at this theme. While the above has been one stream of outpouring in the country's press, the other has been to hammer away at what many columnists saw as a confession-and-pardon charade. I continue to hammer away at the importance of public broadcasting, and the importance of saving our book publishing industry. SGI continues to be happy hammering away on the high end graphics and scientific computing markets. Depends on the effectiveness of the Democrats at hammering away at that issue. She hammers away at her themes, supposedly ironizing irony. And they kept hammering away right up until the elections that ETA was a prime suspect. Yeah, but you don't see the media hammering away at that issue. SGI continues to hammer away on the graphics and high performance computing markets that brought it fame. Rais has been hammering away at the judiciary issue. We keep hammering away at these shortfalls in our system. Still, current events are relentlessly hammering away at the idea that ethnicity can and should be the foundation of nationality. You're going to see the prosecution hammering away at the Modesto Police Department throughout this entire process. And we'll take you live to the Scott Peterson murder trial where prosecutors are hammering away on his character. After hammering away through ruck after ruck, an Eric Miller surge caught the English offside and Humphreys kicked the precious points. Sean Barker, Andrew Fester and Bob Hardy kept hammering away at the home defence and Mark Allen capitalised with a try in the corner to cap a fine display. While the company continues to hammer away at the upscale appliance market in the United States, it has opened its once-proprietary control protocol to other companies. Synonyms work hard, labour, slog away, plod away, grind away, slave away, work like a Trojan, work like a dog, keep one's nose to the grindstone persist with, persevere with, keep on with, press on with, not cease from informal stick at, peg away at, beaver away at, plug away at, work one's socks off on, sweat blood for, soldier on with, kill oneself with British informal graft away at rare drudge away at 1.3hammer something in/into Inculcate something forcefully or repeatedly. 强行灌输，反复灌输 a commercial image that was hammered into English consciousness 一个反复灌输到英国人头脑中的广告形象。 Example sentencesExamples If Democrats don't soon begin to strongly support serious movement to renewable energy sources - including hammering the idea in the corporate media - then Republicans may do just that. Indeed, the point was hammered in by a voice-overed narrator contributing fatuous observations like ‘The huge gulf between rich and poor highlights how lucky we are in New Zealand!’ The deal is simple, and he hammers it in more specifically: ‘Do not play with our security, and spontaneously you will secure yourself.’ Synonyms drum, instil, inculcate, knock, drive, din drive home to, impress upon, teach repeatedly to, reiterate to ingrain 2informal Attack or criticize forcefully and relentlessly. 〈非正式〉猛烈抨击，无情批评 he got hammered for an honest mistake 他因一无心的错误而受到严厉的批评。 Example sentencesExamples It looks like the Republicans are planning on hammering him on that one. Health professionals are mobilising to condemn the government, propose major structural reforms, and hammer the ineffectual minister. Unfortunately we are hammered by the Government if we don't do anything - and by the public if we do. Some of the critics in the county who had hammered Corkery for more than a decade were lining up Masters as their next legitimate target. No doubt there were hundreds of agitprop dramas in the 1950s hammering Joe McCarthy's red-baiting campaign. Large goannas are the ones that are likely to be hammered pretty badly by cane toads. They might have hammered him for exposing a unit to theft or damage. The inquiry counsel annoyed the press by attacking their coverage and got hammered himself as a result. He has been hammered in the newspapers and by the critics. In his cross-examinations, he has hammered the witnesses with questions about rebel activity in their villages. It seemed harsh to hammer him for following what must have been an agreed policy and harsher still when he was forced to play on the retreat all afternoon. He got five years for the fraud that never happened, and the system seemed eager to hammer him. The press in America have hammered him for not winning any of the last four, but I would like to have that problem. It would probably do the culture secretary the world of good to go, even if she is hammered for the new three-year deal for arts funding from the government, announced last month. This is the first time I've ever had a case where in a shoplifting situation somebody has been hammered this relentlessly. It hammers the company for not detailing the assumed rates of return at other telecom companies. The author has been hammered by critics into a tiny ball of bloody gunk over the last few months. If the Government is increasingly hammering journalists here, there has to be a sea change in the way we respond. They just attacked me, hammered me at the book signing. He is getting hammered for allowing these words to be in the State of the Union address. Synonyms criticize, censure, attack, condemn, castigate, chastise, lambaste, pillory, reprimand, rebuke, admonish, remonstrate with, take to task, haul over the coals, berate, reproach, reprove informal knock, slam, lay into, roast, cane, blast, bawl out, dress down British informal carpet, slate, slag off, monster, rollick North American informal chew out, ream out, pummel, cut up Australian/New Zealand informal bag rare excoriate, objurgate, reprehend 2.1 Utterly defeat in a game or contest. （在比赛中）彻底击败，大获全胜 they hammered St Mirren 4–0 他们以4比0大败圣米伦队。 Example sentencesExamples In previous years you might have a slip-up and get badly beaten by Kilkenny - well, everybody thought they were going to hammer us anyway. The idea that the Welsh should support England at football when they hammer us at rugby is unacceptable. After a week off Town's A team got back to action with a bang hammering Harlow with ten goals and did their goal difference a power of good. The third team hammered Bradford University 5-1 at home with a hat-trick from M Bell and two goals from J Metcalfe. We got a glimpse of what may be possible when we hammered Doncaster in the opening game. Last season he hammered Lancashire for three centuries in the championship and league clashes at Old Trafford - and finished up a double loser. Elsewhere, re-crowned champions Glasgow Hawks rounded off their campaign by hammering bottom dogs Stirling County 47-8 Yorkshire gave Steve Kirby the new ball on his return from a back injury but Fraser Watts hammered him for four boundaries and he was withdrawn from the attack but returned later to claim the last two wickets to fall. The lack of preparation caught up with him in the UK Championship last month, when he was hammered 9-2 by Stephen Lee in the quarter-finals. We beat them 21-6 and England hammered them 53-3, and it was a real low point for them. In the Keybury League under-sevens Group D, Myrtle Park hammered Gomersal C 11-0. The weakened side were hammered 62-2 and they could face another beating this week unless some players choose to return. Pakistan meanwhile hammers the Brits in their first county match at Worcester where Alimuddin scores a century. We've played against teams that have been worse than that and they've hammered us by more. The Fife side hammered their opponents 4-1 at Central Park while the Hampden side slipped up again with a goalless draw against Brechin City at Glebe Park. Canada bowed out in the tournament's first round after getting hammered by Norway and Russia. Swinging early and connecting often, the Giants hammered Curt Schilling and Brian Anderson in the first two games. ‘Anybody looking at the final score would think we had been hammered, but that was definitely not the case,’ he said. Britannia Farnworth produced a special show for the television when they hammered Prince Rupert 9-1 in the first round of the Division One Cup. Although Skolars were hammered by a record score in the last game against Batley, Moorby is still taking the game seriously. Synonyms trounce, defeat, beat, beat hollow, worst, best, overwhelm, rout, annihilate, bring someone to their knees informal thrash, clobber, lick, demolish, slaughter, murder, paste, pound, drub, give someone a drubbing, wipe the floor with, take to the cleaners, run rings round, walk all over, make mincemeat of, turn something inside out British informal stuff, marmalize North American informal shellac, cream, skunk, blow out US informal own 3Stock Market informal Beat down the price of (a stock) 〈非正式〉压低（某股票）的价格 sceptical investors hammered the computer company's stock 疑心重重的投资者压低该计算机公司的股票价格。 Example sentencesExamples Its stock has been hammered because it's struggling with recent acquisitions, but Moore believes those are short-term problems. The share price got hammered because Irish shareholders are net sellers in the long run. If it is, then BA's earnings and share price will be hammered. Stock markets got hammered yesterday, as investors fled equities for cash, stunned by the latest WorldCom corporate scandal in the US. The big reason investors aren't hammering buyers' stocks: Most acquirers have become cautious about not overpaying. 4Stock Market Declare (a person or company) a defaulter. 〔股票交易〕宣布（某人，某公司）无力偿债（或不履行债务） Willis was hammered in the recession Example sentencesExamples Meanwhile Woolner and Sumner-Jones were declared in default and ‘hammered’ on the Stock Exchange, meaning they could no longer trade. Such a member is said to be "hammered," and his name is struck off the list. Phrases come (or go) under the hammer Be sold at an auction. 被拍卖 Example sentencesExamples A total of 12 medals belonging to Maj-Gen Drake went under the hammer at London auction house, Spink's, with the set estimated to be worth £20,000 without the elite VC honour. Just days ago the Elliott family silver and a collection of prized John Gould bird prints went under the hammer at a Melbourne auction. Two previously unheard recordings by John Lennon were sold for €216,000 yesterday when they went under the hammer at an auction of pop memorabilia. A photograph of Edward VIII taken during his notorious meeting with Adolf Hitler failed to sell at auction yesterday when it went under the hammer as part of a collection of private papers which belonged to his aide. It came under the hammer at the auction and was sold for E50. Mr Lang said Wednesday's auction was a very spirited event as the entire contents of the motel - 650 items - went under the hammer and were all sold. Around half a dozen bidders tried to snap up the Gooseholme public toilet on the banks of the River Kent when it went under the hammer at a property auction at Manchester Airport. The property of Glen Lodge at Culleenamore recently went under the hammer at an auction in Dublin. The most expensive piece of furniture ever to be sold at auction is due to go under the hammer once more on December 9. Yesterday it went under the hammer at prestigious auction house Bonhams in Knightsbridge, London, fetching £300. hammer and tongs informal Energetically, enthusiastically, or with great vehemence. 〈非正式〉有力地；热情地；猛烈地 racehorses going at it hammer and tongs 奋力冲刺的赛马。 Example sentencesExamples They have played with great tempo, and been so positive in going at their opponents hammer and tongs. They were eating steak pie suppers and arguing hammer and tongs when suddenly she got out. Poor old Gordon has to sleep on the other side of the house, while Cherie's going at it hammer and tongs, screaming like a banshee. Several commenters down below have gone at it hammer and tongs and have gotten periodically diverted into arguing that the nuclear attacks on civilian populations in Japan were just. How can you go at a ruling hammer and tongs when you have this sort of culture? On the pitch two gallant teams went at it hammer and tongs while off it, their passionate supporters kept up an incessant cacophony, which will not, I'll warrant, be equalled at the county final. It went into extra-time, you had two world-class teams going at it hammer and tongs. We expected Clare to come at us hammer and tongs, but it wasn't until we began to create space for ourselves up front in the closing quarter that the tide turned in our favour. On Thursday, she went hammer and tongs at the Government when condemning the arrest of women employees in connection with the ongoing State-wide strike by service organisations. Give them a different way to go about discussing ideas and the issues that face the world, and they go at it hammer and tongs. Synonyms strenuously, with great vigour, strongly, powerfully, potently, forcefully, with force, forcibly, energetically, aggressively, heartily, eagerly, with eagerness, enthusiastically, with enthusiasm, with great effort, with all one's might, with might and main, with a will, for dear life, for all one is worth, to the best of one's abilities, as best one can, all out, with a vengeance, fiercely, intensely, hard, as hard as possible, as hard as one can, with all the stops out, like the devil, like the deuce, at full tilt Phrasal Verbs hammer something out 1Laboriously work out the details of a plan or agreement. 详细推敲出，悉力打造出（计划或协议） Example sentencesExamples But the conditions are that the guerrillas call a ceasefire and cessation of hostilities - a non-starter as the rebels have always said a ceasefire could only be called after the details of a peace agreement had been hammered out. Further details will be hammered out at working-level talks in the near future. We finally hammered it out by the end of the summer. As a writer or producer, you find yourself trapped in the middle and at first, you want to tell them, ‘Hey… you guys hammer it out and let me know what the decision is.’ In the end, there was too much opposition from business and development interests, so the CIR was put on hold while the superstore plan was hammered out. Now, sources say that votes could come as early as next Wednesday in the House and Thursday in the Senate, when all the details are hammered out. Scrap the Debate Commission and let the campaigns hammer it out between themselves each election. The ministers will ask the officials to leave the room and hammer it out among themselves. Each one thinking that the other is going to get some minor advantage by pulling some trick, and it just makes it hard to hammer this stuff out. In each case, it's not the solution they hammer out that matters; it's the process of hammering it out. Synonyms thrash out, work out, agree on, sort out, decide on, bring about, effect, produce, broker, negotiate, reach an agreement on, come to terms about, come to a decision on, come to a satisfactory conclusion on, form a resolution about 2Play something on a piano loudly and unskilfully. Derivatives hammerless adjective ˈhamələsˈhæmərləs The double-barrel shotgun, preferably the hammerless kind that ‘on-safes’ itself each time the action is opened, has served the same function on the shotgun side for decades. Example sentencesExamples The first Franchis were exposed-hammer side-by-side shotguns that quickly evolved into a hammerless design based upon a Holland & Holland-type side lock system. The shift from pins to hammerless equipment improved the sustainability of a finite resource - some cracks were becoming nothing more than a series of pin scars - and, consequently, improved the sustainability of the sport itself. ‘We have taken the striker-fired hammerless slide and barrel portion prevalent in our European competitors and integrated them into the 1911 handset,’ said Brent Mounts of Alchemy Arms. ‘The 642 Airweight is hammerless, easy to use and a little bit less expensive than some of the new things that are on the market in lightweight frames,’ Ball said. Origin Old English hamor, hamer, of Germanic origin: related to Dutch hamer, German Hammer, and Old Norse hamarr 'rock'. The original sense was probably 'stone tool'. Old English hamor has a Germanic origin, related to German Hammer, and Old Norse hamarr ‘rock, crag’. The original sense was probably ‘stone tool or weapon’. The expression hammer and tongs (early 18th century) meaning ‘with energy and speed’ comes from the blacksmith showering blows on the iron taken by the help of tongs from the fire. Rhymes Alabama, clamour (US clamor), crammer, gamma, glamour (US glamor), gnamma, grammar, jammer, lamber, mamma, rammer, shammer, slammer, stammer, yammer Hammer² (also Hammer Film Productions) proper nounˈhamə 1A British film company founded in 1948, known especially for its horror films. 1.1usually as modifier A film produced by Hammer Film Productions. a Hammer horror movie noun.1 phr. phr.v. name.1 Definition of hammer in US English: hammer nounˈhamərˈhæmər 1A tool with a heavy metal head mounted at right angles at the end of a handle, used for jobs such as breaking things and driving in nails. 锤子，榔头 Example sentencesExamples I moved on to the engine room and took a good look around the engine and workshop area, which still held tools, spanners and hammers! Most of the project requires basic wood-working tools - a circular saw, a saber saw, an electric drill, a hammer, and a nail set. Although the small shop houses a grinder-buffer, drill, bench sander and electric saw, most of the tools are primitive looking hammers, mallets and anvils. Then pull out the nails with a hammer or locking pliers. Before you hit your sales reps with a lot of questions or break out the hammer and nails to begin building displays, do an assessment of your shop. If all you have in your home is a broken screwdriver, a hammer without a handle, and one wrench you hope will happen to fit whatever bolt you encounter, you need some help. It wasn't until early last fall that I actually pulled it out of the plastic tub that houses my hammer, nails, and other unused tools. To drill through the tile you will need a hammer, a nail set, an electric drill and a masonry bit a little larger than the diameter of the screws you use. That wood was probably going to go to some company and be used to make door stops or handles for axes or hammers or something like that. They have nail guns, hammers, drills, the whole lot; everything they need to facilitate the destruction. Grip pressure should be firm but not tight - about the way you would grip a hammer's handle while driving nails. To do this, he says, you need two basic tools: a hammer and a screwdriver. They would also have used tools such as planes, axes, adzes, draw knives, wedges, knives, chisels, hammers, mallets, awls, gouges, and spoon augers (a type of drill). I also need a hammer and nails, picture hooks and the step ladder. In addition to Mike's skill and knowledge on the golf course, he's pretty handy with a hammer and nails and has quite a selection of tools in the garage. Use a hammer and nail set or an electric drill with countersink bit to join the frame pieces. Use a ball-peen hammer or a block of wood and a nail hammer to knock the tool head out of the ferule on the handle. Much of the work is done manually using basic tools like hammers, shovels, axes and mammoties, a spade-like implement common throughout Sri Lanka. He began the process of clipping various tools to his brother's belt - nail gun, replacement clips, throwing chisels, hammers, saw blades, sander, drill bits. Use a hammer and nail set to drive them below the surface. Synonyms mallet, beetle, gavel 1.1 A machine with a metal block for giving a heavy blow to something. 锻压机 Example sentencesExamples A hydraulic hammer is basically a hydraulically powered reciprocating piston inside of a body. Hydraulic hammers and breakers, attached to big excavators or scudding skid-steers, announce demolition. Shaw points out that hydraulic hammers and pulverizer attachments have allowed them to pick up demolition work on bridges and commercial and industrial buildings. 1.2 An auctioneer's mallet for indicating by a sharp tap that an article is sold. （拍卖师用的）小木槌 Example sentencesExamples A auctioneer lowers his hammer as a painting believed to be a work by Vincent Van Gogh is sold for US $550,000 in Tokyo yesterday. Worrall's book is a warning to anyone lured by the auctioneer's hammer. This slim fast-talking man is a whiz with an auction hammer. City fans will be given a chance to get hold of their own piece of football history when items from Maine Road go under the auctioneer's hammers. Before I knew it my arm flew up, the auctioneer banged the hammer down and she was mine! 1.3 A part of a mechanism that hits another part to make it work, such as one exploding the charge in a gun or one striking the strings of a piano. （机械装置中用来击打另一部件使之运作的）小锤；（枪炮的）击铁；（钢琴等的）音锤 Example sentencesExamples If struck a hard blow, the hammers are designed to shear rather than override the sears. The safety also blocks the hammer from contact with the firing pin. On the other hand, Debussy seems at times to call for a delicacy beyond the capability of fingers or for a piano which has no hammers at all. Frames and slides are made to his specifications by a vendor, as are screws and springs, but Brown machines sears, hammers, safeties and most of the other small parts. The SFS adds a mechanical hammer block to prevent the hammer from hitting the firing pin unless the trigger is pulled. 2A metal ball, typically weighing 16 pounds (7.3 kg), attached to a wire for throwing in an athletic contest. （体育中的）链球 Example sentencesExamples It is an Olympic sport, like rifle shooting, and throwing the hammer or the discus. And what about if the hockey was taking place on the same field that they were throwing the hammer and javelin. He towered above others and could throw the hammer to a distance of around 190 feet. For Skyrac AC Nicola Jackson threw the hammer 39.22m for sixth place. Aidan Kelly scored top points when finishing in 1st place in the hammer with a throw of 36.24. 2.1the hammer The sport of throwing a metal ball attached to a wire. Example sentencesExamples The City of Glasgow athlete has thrown 55.10m in the hammer this season - well over the qualification mark for the World Juniors. Olympic hammer champion Szymon Ziolkowski of Poland set a new world championship record to win gold ahead of Asian record holder Koji Murofushi. We are very strong here in Sligo on the track, but quite weak in some field events such as pole vault, high jump and hammer. There is also a track surface to provide a run-up for the javelin meaning the only disciplines the facility cannot currently play host to is the hammer and pole vault. In the under-17 events, James Nagle won gold in the hammer and shot putt contests. 3 another term for malleus Example sentencesExamples There they became the anvil and the hammer, minute bones that transmit sound from the eardrum to the stirrup bone and, ultimately, to the inner ear. The findings are drawn from examination of the hammer, anvil and stirrup bones in the ears of Homo heidelbergensis fossils, also known as Boxgrove Man. The drum vibrates with the sound and rattles three small bones: the hammer, anvil and stirrup. verbˈhamərˈhæmər [with object] 1Hit or beat (something) with a hammer or similar object. 用锤（或类似物）反复敲打（某物） they are made by heating and hammering pieces of iron Example sentencesExamples Joe and Serena are talking about their new loves when Paul hammers the door down demanding to know why she graffitied his wall. With the birds already in the construction I couldn't start hammering a new thing onto it, nor could they really be moved for fear of traumatising the newborn ducklings. No one here is hammering a list of demands on a church door. I hammered it to death repeatedly with the book for several minutes. A haze of fragrant wood-smoke rose from his furnace; workers sawed and hammered metal, others worked meticulously on figurines which had been rough cast. The surgeon then packs cement along the distal femur and hammers the femoral implant into place. The kids, from knee-high to tall as any grown up, sanded the round bone discs, and hammered a design onto a metal plate that Yip riveted to the face of the disc. The men were hammering wooden boards with cartoon - like ferocity. Of course that first thing that sprang to mind was lockjaw, but I've not been hammering any rusty nails recently, so it's unlikely. A golden spike was hammered into the ground to symbolize the momentous occasion. Toe plates are then cut from sheet metal, and pieces of iron are hammered and twisted into shape to form soles and heels. That way when you are hammering the post spike you are hitting the wooden post piece, not the metal. As a boy he was taught to read by feeling upholstery studs hammered into pieces of wood in the shapes of letters and numbers. He has three men at work on the deck, and with a chisel, they are hammering little bits of cotton waste into the tiny spaces between the beams that form the deck. Far off to his left, he could hear Em and the Marns boy hammering planks to the tree. Jesus is flung on the rough timber and iron spikes are hammered through his hands and feet. The best type of helm was hammered and raised out of a single piece of iron and was therefore stronger than a riveted one. After that nails are hammered through the pre-punched holes as the pieces are attached to the wood. It's difficult to have a chilled and relaxed weekend when it's accompanied by the sound of Dominic hammering floorboards, Dominic hammering walls, Dominic hammering doors and window frames. I'm serious: some guy in my neighbourhood has been hammering the same nail for about eight months now. The melted Stones were beat and hammered into weapons called the Behemoths. We heard the rhythmic pounding as the spear points were hammered onto shafts of ash wood. ‘In old times they started making gold leaf by hammering gold between pieces of leather,’ Tsaneva explains. Synonyms beat, forge, shape, form, mould, fashion, make 1.1no object Strike or knock at or on something violently with one's hand or with a hammer or other object. （用手、锤子等用力）击打，敲打 she hammered on his door 她猛敲他的门。 Example sentencesExamples The equaliser came in the final minute when Lee Buggie latched onto a throughball and hammered a shot past the keeper. The girlfriend, Peggy, knocks on the door of the room where Lemmon is furiously hammering away on his typewriter. On a coffee table in their sitting room stood two cups of cold coffee and the remains of two cream cakes - all that was left of the snack they abandoned last night when a neighbour hammered on their door and told them they had to get out. Stephen then hammered on the door of a house to get help and an elderly man let him in and comforted him for half-an-hour before he walked for five minutes up the road to his home. Played in ideal conditions the Charlestown lads settled quickly and took the lead through David Caffrey who beat three players before hammering the ball to the net. I've been sawing and hammering away at that wood we rescued from behind the mall, and made a couple of lovely rough crates for my home-made goodies to go into. People hammered on train doors and screamed to get out, while crowds in the station ran in all directions, protecting their heads, to get away from the chaos. However, I broke the silence as I hammered on the door to attract attention. I hammered on the door of my brother's room and later on the restroom door. There are, as I write, three or four thousand aroused woodpeckers hammering away at my property. However Waterford were soon back on the attack and Fitzgerald went close once more as he hammered a right foot shot off the crossbar with Devlin beaten. He hammered on the shield again, tears of rage and frustration flowing freely down his cheeks. Yappyfox, the red fox who so proudly hammered on his cymbal for the previous nine hours, takes the stage and begins a classic instrumental song. He hammers away at the keys, periodically ripping the paper out of the machine, thrusting it into the hands of whichever cabinet minister has drawn the short straw, and gasping, ‘here, give them this.’ Both men hammered on the rooms along the corridor to rouse other guests. Indeed, Kilbride might have rubbed salt in with big Jim Fitz hammering a shot off the crossbar in the closing moments before the nimble Nolan brought the scoring to an end with his fifth point from a free. Harlan took the dagger and hammered it down onto the desk so loudly that it made even Camelot jump. This is as far as we go because rock breakers are still hammering away here, slowly pulverising the rock to clear trenches for drains. He clapped Bligh's arm, and then turned and hammered on the door. Both Mr Noble and Mr Roper then hammered on the room doors along the corridor to rouse other guests before dashing upstairs to wake people on the top floor. Synonyms batter, pummel, beat, bang, pound 1.2hammer awayno object Work hard and persistently. 拼命干，作不懈努力 for six months I have been hammering away at a plot Example sentencesExamples Sean Barker, Andrew Fester and Bob Hardy kept hammering away at the home defence and Mark Allen capitalised with a try in the corner to cap a fine display. Rais has been hammering away at the judiciary issue. She hammers away at her themes, supposedly ironizing irony. During this time period, the opposition party usually has a group of potential presidential candidates hammering away at the incumbent. And they kept hammering away right up until the elections that ETA was a prime suspect. You're going to see the prosecution hammering away at the Modesto Police Department throughout this entire process. Depends on the effectiveness of the Democrats at hammering away at that issue. We keep hammering away at these shortfalls in our system. After hammering away through ruck after ruck, an Eric Miller surge caught the English offside and Humphreys kicked the precious points. I continue to hammer away at the importance of public broadcasting, and the importance of saving our book publishing industry. And we'll take you live to the Scott Peterson murder trial where prosecutors are hammering away on his character. While the above has been one stream of outpouring in the country's press, the other has been to hammer away at what many columnists saw as a confession-and-pardon charade. While the company continues to hammer away at the upscale appliance market in the United States, it has opened its once-proprietary control protocol to other companies. They amassed a further 47 points without reply and were still hammering away at what remained of the shreds of Italy's defence even as the clock ticked into injury time. Still, current events are relentlessly hammering away at the idea that ethnicity can and should be the foundation of nationality. Yeah, but you don't see the media hammering away at that issue. SGI continues to be happy hammering away on the high end graphics and scientific computing markets. SGI continues to hammer away on the graphics and high performance computing markets that brought it fame. The flashpoint of debate and controversy is the status of women, and Makhmalbaf's films, along with those of his wife and daughter, continue to hammer away at this theme. Synonyms work hard, labour, slog away, plod away, grind away, slave away, work like a trojan, work like a dog, keep one's nose to the grindstone 1.3with object Drive or secure (something) by striking with or as if with a hammer. 用（锤子等）将…敲入，把…钉牢 he hammered the tack in 他将头钉钉入。 he was hammering leather soles onto a pair of small boots 他正给一双小靴子钉皮底。 Synonyms beat, forge, shape, form, mould, fashion, make 1.4hammer something in/into Instill (an attitude, idea, or habit) forcefully or repeatedly. the “diversity is good” message is hammered into them Example sentencesExamples If Democrats don't soon begin to strongly support serious movement to renewable energy sources - including hammering the idea in the corporate media - then Republicans may do just that. Indeed, the point was hammered in by a voice-overed narrator contributing fatuous observations like ‘The huge gulf between rich and poor highlights how lucky we are in New Zealand!’ The deal is simple, and he hammers it in more specifically: ‘Do not play with our security, and spontaneously you will secure yourself.’ Synonyms drum, instil, inculcate, knock, drive, din 2informal Attack or criticize forcefully and relentlessly. 〈非正式〉猛烈抨击，无情批评 he got hammered for an honest mistake 他因一无心的错误而受到严厉的批评。 Example sentencesExamples It hammers the company for not detailing the assumed rates of return at other telecom companies. They might have hammered him for exposing a unit to theft or damage. No doubt there were hundreds of agitprop dramas in the 1950s hammering Joe McCarthy's red-baiting campaign. They just attacked me, hammered me at the book signing. He is getting hammered for allowing these words to be in the State of the Union address. If the Government is increasingly hammering journalists here, there has to be a sea change in the way we respond. Some of the critics in the county who had hammered Corkery for more than a decade were lining up Masters as their next legitimate target. He got five years for the fraud that never happened, and the system seemed eager to hammer him. He has been hammered in the newspapers and by the critics. The press in America have hammered him for not winning any of the last four, but I would like to have that problem. Large goannas are the ones that are likely to be hammered pretty badly by cane toads. Health professionals are mobilising to condemn the government, propose major structural reforms, and hammer the ineffectual minister. It would probably do the culture secretary the world of good to go, even if she is hammered for the new three-year deal for arts funding from the government, announced last month. It looks like the Republicans are planning on hammering him on that one. The inquiry counsel annoyed the press by attacking their coverage and got hammered himself as a result. This is the first time I've ever had a case where in a shoplifting situation somebody has been hammered this relentlessly. The author has been hammered by critics into a tiny ball of bloody gunk over the last few months. Unfortunately we are hammered by the Government if we don't do anything - and by the public if we do. In his cross-examinations, he has hammered the witnesses with questions about rebel activity in their villages. It seemed harsh to hammer him for following what must have been an agreed policy and harsher still when he was forced to play on the retreat all afternoon. Synonyms criticize, censure, attack, condemn, castigate, chastise, lambaste, pillory, reprimand, rebuke, admonish, remonstrate with, take to task, haul over the coals, berate, reproach, reprove 2.1 Utterly defeat in a game or contest. （在比赛中）彻底击败，大获全胜 they hammered St. Louis 6–0 他们以4比0大败圣米伦队。 Example sentencesExamples The Fife side hammered their opponents 4-1 at Central Park while the Hampden side slipped up again with a goalless draw against Brechin City at Glebe Park. The idea that the Welsh should support England at football when they hammer us at rugby is unacceptable. In the Keybury League under-sevens Group D, Myrtle Park hammered Gomersal C 11-0. The third team hammered Bradford University 5-1 at home with a hat-trick from M Bell and two goals from J Metcalfe. In previous years you might have a slip-up and get badly beaten by Kilkenny - well, everybody thought they were going to hammer us anyway. Pakistan meanwhile hammers the Brits in their first county match at Worcester where Alimuddin scores a century. Yorkshire gave Steve Kirby the new ball on his return from a back injury but Fraser Watts hammered him for four boundaries and he was withdrawn from the attack but returned later to claim the last two wickets to fall. Swinging early and connecting often, the Giants hammered Curt Schilling and Brian Anderson in the first two games. Last season he hammered Lancashire for three centuries in the championship and league clashes at Old Trafford - and finished up a double loser. The lack of preparation caught up with him in the UK Championship last month, when he was hammered 9-2 by Stephen Lee in the quarter-finals. We beat them 21-6 and England hammered them 53-3, and it was a real low point for them. Britannia Farnworth produced a special show for the television when they hammered Prince Rupert 9-1 in the first round of the Division One Cup. The weakened side were hammered 62-2 and they could face another beating this week unless some players choose to return. We got a glimpse of what may be possible when we hammered Doncaster in the opening game. We've played against teams that have been worse than that and they've hammered us by more. ‘Anybody looking at the final score would think we had been hammered, but that was definitely not the case,’ he said. After a week off Town's A team got back to action with a bang hammering Harlow with ten goals and did their goal difference a power of good. Although Skolars were hammered by a record score in the last game against Batley, Moorby is still taking the game seriously. Canada bowed out in the tournament's first round after getting hammered by Norway and Russia. Elsewhere, re-crowned champions Glasgow Hawks rounded off their campaign by hammering bottom dogs Stirling County 47-8 Synonyms trounce, defeat, beat, beat hollow, worst, best, overwhelm, rout, annihilate, bring someone to their knees Phrases come (or go) under the hammer Be sold at an auction. 被拍卖 Example sentencesExamples Yesterday it went under the hammer at prestigious auction house Bonhams in Knightsbridge, London, fetching £300. A photograph of Edward VIII taken during his notorious meeting with Adolf Hitler failed to sell at auction yesterday when it went under the hammer as part of a collection of private papers which belonged to his aide. Just days ago the Elliott family silver and a collection of prized John Gould bird prints went under the hammer at a Melbourne auction. The most expensive piece of furniture ever to be sold at auction is due to go under the hammer once more on December 9. A total of 12 medals belonging to Maj-Gen Drake went under the hammer at London auction house, Spink's, with the set estimated to be worth £20,000 without the elite VC honour. Two previously unheard recordings by John Lennon were sold for €216,000 yesterday when they went under the hammer at an auction of pop memorabilia. Around half a dozen bidders tried to snap up the Gooseholme public toilet on the banks of the River Kent when it went under the hammer at a property auction at Manchester Airport. The property of Glen Lodge at Culleenamore recently went under the hammer at an auction in Dublin. It came under the hammer at the auction and was sold for E50. Mr Lang said Wednesday's auction was a very spirited event as the entire contents of the motel - 650 items - went under the hammer and were all sold. hammer and tongs informal Energetically, enthusiastically, or with great vehemence. 〈非正式〉有力地；热情地；猛烈地 all the way to the bottom, Larry could hear them clanging away, hammer and tongs Example sentencesExamples Several commenters down below have gone at it hammer and tongs and have gotten periodically diverted into arguing that the nuclear attacks on civilian populations in Japan were just. They were eating steak pie suppers and arguing hammer and tongs when suddenly she got out. How can you go at a ruling hammer and tongs when you have this sort of culture? They have played with great tempo, and been so positive in going at their opponents hammer and tongs. On Thursday, she went hammer and tongs at the Government when condemning the arrest of women employees in connection with the ongoing State-wide strike by service organisations. Give them a different way to go about discussing ideas and the issues that face the world, and they go at it hammer and tongs. Poor old Gordon has to sleep on the other side of the house, while Cherie's going at it hammer and tongs, screaming like a banshee. It went into extra-time, you had two world-class teams going at it hammer and tongs. On the pitch two gallant teams went at it hammer and tongs while off it, their passionate supporters kept up an incessant cacophony, which will not, I'll warrant, be equalled at the county final. We expected Clare to come at us hammer and tongs, but it wasn't until we began to create space for ourselves up front in the closing quarter that the tide turned in our favour. Synonyms strenuously, with great vigour, strongly, powerfully, potently, forcefully, with force, forcibly, energetically, aggressively, heartily, eagerly, with eagerness, enthusiastically, with enthusiasm, with great effort, with all one's might, with might and main, with a will, for dear life, for all one is worth, to the best of one's abilities, as best one can, all out, with a vengeance, fiercely, intensely, hard, as hard as possible, as hard as one can, with all the stops out, like the devil, like the deuce, at full tilt Phrasal Verbs hammer something out 1Make something by shaping metal with a hammer. 锤成，锻造出 Example sentencesExamples At first brass or copper sheet was made by hammering it out by hand. Ancient blacksmiths heated the iron ore and then hammered out iron spears and swords. The blacksmith who hammered it out from a single piece of stock was skilled at his trade. This might be what was so puzzling to Moshe about the Menorah being hammered out from one piece of gold. 2Laboriously work out the details of a plan or agreement. 详细推敲出，悉力打造出（计划或协议） a deal was being hammered out with the Dutch museums 正在悉力与荷兰博物馆达成一笔交易。 Example sentencesExamples But the conditions are that the guerrillas call a ceasefire and cessation of hostilities - a non-starter as the rebels have always said a ceasefire could only be called after the details of a peace agreement had been hammered out. Now, sources say that votes could come as early as next Wednesday in the House and Thursday in the Senate, when all the details are hammered out. Scrap the Debate Commission and let the campaigns hammer it out between themselves each election. As a writer or producer, you find yourself trapped in the middle and at first, you want to tell them, ‘Hey… you guys hammer it out and let me know what the decision is.’ Each one thinking that the other is going to get some minor advantage by pulling some trick, and it just makes it hard to hammer this stuff out. In the end, there was too much opposition from business and development interests, so the CIR was put on hold while the superstore plan was hammered out. Further details will be hammered out at working-level talks in the near future. In each case, it's not the solution they hammer out that matters; it's the process of hammering it out. The ministers will ask the officials to leave the room and hammer it out among themselves. We finally hammered it out by the end of the summer. Synonyms thrash out, work out, agree on, sort out, decide on, bring about, effect, produce, broker, negotiate, reach an agreement on, come to terms about, come to a decision on, come to a satisfactory conclusion on, form a resolution about 3Play a tune loudly or clumsily, especially on the piano. （尤指用钢琴）笨拙而大声地演奏，敲击出 Example sentencesExamples "Walking the Dog" was followed by the final tune of the first set, "Snake Rag", hammered out at a 140 tempo. We had worked on it at sound checks, but hadn't really started hammering it out that morning before he got there. Origin Old English hamor, hamer, of Germanic origin: related to Dutch hamer, German Hammer, and Old Norse hamarr ‘rock’. The original sense was probably ‘stone tool’. noun.1 phr. phr.v.
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