hammer
noun
a tool consisting of a solid head, usually of metal, set crosswise on a handle, used for beating metals, driving nails, etc.
hammerer
-
a word derived from
hammer.
Example Sentences
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Soto, a feaster on fastballs, a hammerer of homers, crushed the four-seamer into the right-field seats to give the Nationals the lead again.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 29, 2019
The names of hammerer, upholsterer and painter are engraved on the doorjambs.
From Time Magazine Archive
The suspected hammerer himself was wandering among the primroses in the garden.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
He will fight by his champion, and turn me over to my fellow craftsman the hammerer, when all I can reap will be the pleasure of knocking a Highland bullock on the head.
From The Fair Maid of Perth Or, St. Valentine's Day by Sir Walter Scott
Grostête upheld the eastern doctrines against the teaching of the Papal Court, and indeed was nicknamed 'the hammerer of the Romans.'
From The Great Book-Collectors by Charles Isaac Elton
