hammer away
锤击,落锤,榔头,锤子
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Definitions
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- : a tool consisting of a solid head, usually of metal, set crosswise on a handle, used for beating metals, driving nails, etc.
- : any of various instruments or devices resembling this in form, action, or use, as a gavel, a mallet for playing the xylophone, or a lever that strikes the bell in a doorbell.
- : Firearms. the part of a lock that by its fall or action causes the discharge, as by exploding the percussion cap or striking the primer or firing pin; the cock.
- : one of the padded levers by which the strings of a piano are struck.
- : Track. a metal ball, usually weighing 16 pounds, attached to a steel wire at the end of which is a grip, for throwing for distance in the hammer throw.
- : Anatomy. the malleus.
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- : to beat or drive with a hammer.
- : to fasten by using hammer and nails; nail: We spent the day hammering up announcements on fences and trees.
- : to assemble or build with a hammer and nails: He hammered together a small crate.
- : to shape or ornament by controlled and repeated blows of a hammer; beat out: to hammer brass; to hammer a brass bowl.
- : to form, construct, or make with or as if with a hammer; build by repeated, vigorous, or strenuous effort: to hammer out an agreement; to hammer together a plot.
- : to produce with or by force: to hammer out a tune on the piano; to hammer a home run.
- : to pound or hit forcefully: to hammer someone in the jaw.
- : to settle; bring to an end, as by strenuous or repeated effort: They hammered out their differences over a glass of beer.
- : to present forcefully or compellingly; state strongly, aggressively, and effectively.
- : to impress as if by hammer blows: You'll have to hammer the rules into his head.
- : British. to dismiss from membership because of default.to depress the price of.
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- : to strike blows with or as if with a hammer.
- : to make persistent or laborious attempts to finish or perfect something: He hammered away at his speech for days.
- : to reiterate; emphasize by repetition: The teacher hammered away at the multiplication tables.
Phrases
- hammer and tongs
- hammer away at
- hammer out
- under the hammer
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
A pick hammer sits at the top of the handle to allow users to break ice with a tapping motion, while the spike at the bottom offers more traditional stabbing functionality.
Complete your set with a cutting mat, metal rulers and squares, some sponges, and a rubber or wooden hammer—any other type of hammer can damage the leather.
The group, often armed with guns and other weapons such as hammers and baseball bats, regularly rallies on the grounds of the Minnesota Capitol.
There were rules and if someone was acting up in the chat you dropped the hammer.
Papagelis joined forces in Hammer’s Lot with Ken Johnson — “Pinto Ron” — in 1992.
Next, the GOP should hammer away at how our roads, bridges, and tunnels are crumbling, and push for an infrastructure initiative.
If we enter with hammer in hand, we may leave with merely dust and rubble on our faces.
In this way, certain cognitive mechanisms can act like a hammer too eager for nails.
The phrase means, “the nail that sticks out always gets hit by a hammer.”
Another surveillance video, showing the perpetrator with hammer in hand, is here.
The noise of the hammer is always in his ears, and his eye is upon the pattern of the vessel he maketh.
With a hammer the boy knocked off some of the slats of the small box in which Squinty had made his journey.
I suppose the hammer falls back more slowly from the string, and that makes the tone sing longer.
He was ready to drop when he reached it, and his heart beat like a hammer against his ribs.
And then the Monitor's deafening hammer sounded again, and after that, silence.