[1] A hand tool with a metal head and a handle It is used to force one item against or through another Several types of hammers are available: air hammer ball peen hammer ballpein hammer ball pien hammer blacksmith hammer body hammer brass hammer bricklayer hammer bumping hammer caulking hammer chipping hammer claw hammer club hammer copper-faced hammer deadblow hammer demolition hammer drilling hammer drywall hammer fender bumping hammer finish hammer framing hammer grooving hammer machinists' hammer nail hammer nylon hammer panel hammer peen hammer pein hammer pick and finishing hammer pick hammer planishing hammer prospector's pick ripping hammer riveting hammer rotary hammer rubber mallet shingler's hammer shingler's hammer shrinking hammer sledge hammer slide hammer soft face hammer tack hammer tile setter hammer tinner's hammer tinner's hammer two-way hammer wide-nose peen hammer wing bumping hammer and wood mallet
If you say that someone was going at something hammer and tongs, you mean that they were doing it with great enthusiasm or energy. He loved gardening. He went at it hammer and tongs as soon as he got back from work
code name for AMD's first fully 64bit CPU It is currently expected to sample in early 2001 and ship late 2001 Update 2002 Hammer is currently slated to ship in Q4 2002 This is the desktop/workstation version code name ClawHammer with an expected official name of Athlon XP 64 The server version will debut in the first half of 2003 It is code name SledgeHammer and the product name is Opteron
a hand tool with a heavy rigid head and a handle; used to deliver an impulsive force by striking a power tool for drilling rocks a striker that is covered in felt and that causes the piano strings to vibrate the part of a gunlock that strikes the percussion cap when the trigger is pulled a heavy metal sphere attached to a flexible wire; used in the hammer throw an athletic competition in which a heavy metal ball that is attached to a flexible wire is hurled as far as possible beat with or as if with a hammer; "hammer the metal flat
the part of a gunlock that strikes the percussion cap when the trigger is pulled