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
I must confess that the article in No. 6. p. 86., which deprived Charles Martel of his long-possessed distinction of "the hammerer" gave me but little satisfaction.
From Notes and Queries, Number 18, March 2, 1850 by Various
Judas, the hammerer, fired his valiant soul from them; and, while wandering in the hill country of Judaea, David chanted, to his harp's accompaniment these legends of the childhood of his race.
From The Right and Wrong Uses of the Bible by R. Heber Newton
