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See also: Hammer, hämmer, and Hämmer

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EnglishEdit

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A hammer (tool).

EtymologyEdit

From Middle English hamer, Old English hamor, from Proto-Germanic *hamaraz (compare West Frisian hammer, Low German Hamer, Dutch hamer, German Hammer, Danish hammer, Swedish hammare). The Germanic *hamaraz "tool with a stone head" derives from a Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱmoros (compare Sanskrit अश्मरी ‎(aśmarī, “strangury”)), itself a derivation from *h₂éḱmō ‎(“stone”).

For *h₂éḱmō ‎(“stone”), compare Lithuanian akmuõ, Russian камень ‎(kamenʹ), Serbo-Croatian kamēn, Albanian kmesë ‎(“sickle”), Ancient Greek ἄκμων ‎(ákmōn, “meteor rock, anvil”), Avestan 𐬥𐬀𐬨𐬯𐬀 ‎(asman), Sanskrit अश्मन् ‎(aśman)) (root *h₂eḱ- ‎(“sharp”)).

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

hammer ‎(plural hammers)

  1. A tool with a heavy head and a handle used for pounding.
  2. A moving part of a firearm that strikes the firing pin to discharge a gun.
  3. (anatomy) The malleus, a small bone of the middle ear.
  4. (music) In a piano or dulcimer, a piece of wood covered in felt that strikes the string.
  5. (sports) A device made of a heavy steel ball attached to a length of wire, and used for throwing.
  6. (curling) The last rock in an end.
  7. (Ultimate Frisbee) A frisbee throwing style in which the disc is held upside-down with a forehand grip and thrown above the head.
  8. Part of a clock that strikes upon a bell to indicate the hour.
  9. One who, or that which, smites or shatters.
    St. Augustine was the hammer of heresies.
    • J. H. Newman
      He met the stern legionaries [of Rome] who had been the massive iron hammers of the whole earth.

Derived termsEdit

terms derived from hammer (noun)

TranslationsEdit

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VerbEdit

hammer ‎(third-person singular simple present hammers, present participle hammering, simple past and past participle hammered)

  1. To strike repeatedly with a hammer, some other implement, the fist, etc.
  2. To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.
    • Dryden
      hammered money
  3. (figuratively) To emphasize a point repeatedly.
  4. (sports) To hit particularly hard.
    • 2010 December 28, Marc Vesty, “Stoke 0 - 2 Fulham”, in BBC[1]:
      This time the defender was teed up by Andrew Johnson's short free-kick on the edge of the box and Baird hammered his low drive beyond Begovic's outstretched left arm and into the bottom corner, doubling his goal tally for the season and stunning the home crowd.
  5. (cycling, intransitive, slang) To ride very fast.
    • 2011, Tim Moore, French Revolutions: Cycling the Tour de France (page 58)
      Fifteen minutes later, leaving a vapour trail of kitchen smells, I hammered into Obterre.
  6. (intransitive) To strike internally, as if hit by a hammer.
    I could hear the engine’s valves hammering once the timing rod was thrown.
  7. (transitive, figuratively, sports) To defeat (a person, a team) resoundingly
    We hammered them 5-0!

Derived termsEdit

terms derived from hammer (verb)

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TranslationsEdit

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DanishEdit

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EtymologyEdit

From Old Norse hamarr, from Proto-Germanic *hamaraz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱmoros, from *h₂éḱmō ‎(“stone”).

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /hamər/, [ˈhɑmɐ]

NounEdit

hammer c (singular definite hammeren, plural indefinite hammere or hamre)

  1. hammer

InflectionEdit

Inflection of hammer
common
gender		 Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative hammer hammeren hammere
hamre		 hammerne
hamrene
genitive hammers hammerens hammeres
hamres		 hammernes
hamrenes

GermanEdit

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

hammer

  1. (colloquial, regional) Contraction of haben wir.
    Da hammer jetz' keine Zeit für.
    We don't have time for that now.

Usage notesEdit

This contraction is common throughout central Germany, southern Germany, and Austria. It is only occasionally heard in northern Germany.

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Norwegian BokmålEdit

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EtymologyEdit

From Old Norse hamarr, from Proto-Germanic *hamaraz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱmoros, from *h₂éḱmō ‎(“stone”).

Alternative formsEdit

NounEdit

hammer m ‎(definite singular hammeren, indefinite plural hammere or hamrer, definite plural hammerne or hamrene)

  1. a hammer (tool)

Related termsEdit

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West FrisianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Frisian hamar, from Proto-Germanic *hamaraz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱmoros, from *h₂éḱmō ‎(“stone”). Compare English hammer, Low German Hamer, Dutch hamer, German Hammer, Danish hammer.

NounEdit

hammer

  1. hammer
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Last edited on 19 September 2016, at 06:44