Meaning

• Noun

  1. A tool with a heavy head and a handle used for pounding.
  2. The act of using a hammer to hit something.
  3. The malleus, a small bone of the middle ear.
  4. In a piano or dulcimer, a piece of wood covered in felt that strikes the string.
  5. A device made of a heavy steel ball attached to a length of wire, and used for throwing.
  6. The last stone in an end.
  7. 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.
  10. Ellipsis of hammer headline.
  11. The accelerator pedal.
  12. A moving part of a firearm that strikes the firing pin to discharge a gun.
  13. (slang) A handgun.

• Verb