hammers
Claw-headed workshop tools
Hammers is the plural of hammer—tools with a heavy head on a handle, used for driving nails or striking.
The word extends to similar mechanisms: the hammer in a piano strikes strings, the hammer in a firearm strikes the firing pin.
To hammer is to strike repeatedly: She hammered on the door until someone answered.
Figuratively, hammering means to attack relentlessly or emphasize forcefully: The prosecutor hammered the witness.
To get hammered is slang for becoming very drunk. (Capitalized Hammers refers to the West Ham United football club.)
Metal fastener or keratin plate
- carpentryWood construction trade
- woodworkCraft of building with lumber
- constructionProcess of building something
- clawCurved animal nail
anvil · forge · smith · strike · head · handle · pounding · driving
Lock-operating instruments
- stringsThin flexible lines
- feltCompressed fiber textile
- dampersThings that restrain intensity
- actionProcess of doing
mechanism · soundboard · tuning · grand · upright · dulcimer · fortepiano · keyboard
Male chicken
- triggerWhat initiates action
- firingTerminating employment
- revolverPistol with rotating chamber
- pistolCompact one-handed firearm
striker · percussion · cap · decock · spur
nail
Metal fastener or keratin plate
- carpentryWood construction trade
- woodworkCraft of building with lumber
- constructionProcess of building something
claw · anvil · forge · smith · strike · head · handle · pounding · driving · workbench
keys
Lock-operating instruments
action · mechanism · soundboard · tuning · grand · upright · dulcimer · fortepiano · keyboard · striking
cock
Male chicken
Olympics
Global athletic contest
power · athletics · circle · footwork · release · rotation · wire · grip · field · competition
malleus
Hammer-shaped hearing bone
eardrum · cochlea · hearing · tympanic · auditory · vibration · sound · otology
- manufactured goodsautomobiles, appliances, auto parts, cars, trucks
- artifactspottery shards, knives, masks, pottery, antiquity
- Workshopworkbench, toolbox, tool chest, tool cabinet, tool rack
- general storecounter, cash register, ledger, cracker barrel, checkerboard
- Santa's workshopelves, toys, sleigh, reindeer, presents
- striking toolsmallets, maul, mauls, gavel, gavels
hammerscrowbars
Leverage tools for prying
nail pullers · pliers · wrecking bars · extractors · pullers
- hammering homeEmphasizing through repetition
- MC HammerNineties hip-hop performer
- hammer outResolve through prolonged effort
- hammered outSettled through laborious effort
- claw hammerTwo-headed nail tool
- hammering outResolving through persistent effort
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