hammer

1. 1.

   beat with or as if with a hammer

   “hammer the metal flat”

   Broaderbeat

   Narrowersledgehammer
2. 2.

   create by hammering

   “hammer the silver into a bowl”

   “forge a pair of tongues”

   Synonymsforge

   Broaderbeat

   Narrowerfoliatedropforge

Other forms of hammer

plural

hammers·

past tense

hammerred·

present participle

hammerring·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hammer

What does hammer mean?

hammer means "the part of a gunlock that strikes the percussion cap when the trigger is pulled". That is the primary sense; the word has 10 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hammer?

hammer has 2 syllables: ham-mer. The stress falls on "ham". In IPA it is /ˈhæmɚ/.

What is another word for hammer?

Close synonyms include cock, malleus, mallet, power hammer, pound. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hammer a common word?

hammer is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with hammer?

2 words rhyme with hammer. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.