hammer throw

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   an athletic competition in which a heavy metal ball that is attached to a flexible wire is hurled as far as possible

   Broaderfield event

Questions about hammer throw

What does hammer throw mean?

hammer throw means "an athletic competition in which a heavy metal ball that is attached to a flexible wire is hurled as far as possible".

Is hammer throw a common word?

hammer throw is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.