HAMMER Synonyms

• a club that is used as a weapon

• strike with a cudgel

• a small mallet used by a presiding officer or a judge

• an official who carries a mace of office

• (trademark) a liquid that temporarily disables a person; prepared as an aerosol and sprayed in the face, it irritates the eyes and causes dizziness and immobilization

• spice made from the dried fleshy covering of the nutmeg seed

• a ceremonial staff carried as a symbol of office or authority

• a heavy long-handled hammer used to drive stakes or wedges

• split (wood) with a maul and wedges

• injure badly by beating

• machine consisting of a heavy bar that moves vertically for pounding or crushing ores

• a heavy tool of stone or iron (usually with a flat base and a handle) that is used to grind and mix material (as grain or drugs or pigments) against a slab of stone

• a club-shaped hand tool for grinding and mixing substances in a mortar

• grind, mash or pulverize in a mortar

• (used only in combination) something weighing a given number of pounds

• a heavy tool of stone or iron (usually with a flat base and a handle) that is used to grind and mix material (as grain or drugs or pigments) against a slab of stone

• a heavy long-handled hammer used to drive stakes or wedges

• beat with a sledgehammer

• a forward on a soccer team

• someone receiving intensive training for a naval technical rating

• an employee on strike against an employer

• someone who hits

• the part of a mechanical device that strikes something

• United States writer who lived in Europe; strongly influenced the development of modern literature (1885-1972)

• 16 ounces avoirdupois

• the basic unit of money in Great Britain and Northern Ireland; equal to 100 pence

• a unit of apothecary weight equal to 12 ounces troy

• the basic unit of money in Syria; equal to 100 piasters

• the basic unit of money in the Sudan; equal to 100 piasters

• the basic unit of money in Lebanon; equal to 100 piasters

• formerly the basic unit of money in Ireland; equal to 100 pence

• the basic unit of money in Egypt; equal to 100 piasters

• the basic unit of money in Cyprus; equal to 100 cents

• a nontechnical unit of force equal to the mass of 1 pound with an acceleration of free fall equal to 32 feet/sec/sec

• a symbol for a unit of currency (especially for the pound sterling in Great Britain)

• a public enclosure for stray or unlicensed dogs

• the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows)

• hit hard with the hand, fist, or some heavy instrument

• strike or drive against with a heavy impact

• move heavily or clumsily

• move rhythmically

• partition off into compartments

• shut up or confine in any enclosure or within any bounds or limits

• place or shut up in a pound

• break down and crush by beating, as with a pestle

• furnace consisting of a special hearth where metal is heated before shaping

• a workplace where metal is worked by heating and hammering

• create by hammering

• make a copy of with the intent to deceive

• come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort

• move ahead steadily

• move or act with a sudden increase in speed or energy

• make something, usually for a specific function

• make out of components (often in an improvising manner)

• the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows)

• the ossicle attached to the eardrum

• repeated heavy blows

• an instance of rapid strong pulsation (of the heart)

• the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows)

• a power tool for drilling rocks