hammer
noun
a tool consisting of a solid head, usually of metal, set crosswise on a handle, used for beating metals, driving nails, etc.
hammerlike
-
a word derived from
hammer.
Example Sentences
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The book has a large, hammerlike engine, yet it is content to purr.
From New York Times ● Oct. 6, 2016
Three or four times a day, a crew armed with telescoping yellow poles topped with hammerlike appendages rolls through the tunnels hunting for icicles.
From New York Times ● Feb. 25, 2015
Two little hammerlike contraptions came down and trailed along the edges of the notched disks, rising and falling as the disks steadily turned.
From "The Invention of Hugo Cabret" by Brian Selznick
"Lot I," "Lot 2," "Lot 50," "Lot 200"—a hammerlike word to thump the brain at night, frightening sleep, producing grotesque nightmares, as "Lot 12, a polished oak coffin, finished plain, brass Handles."
From Once Aboard the Lugger by A. S. M. (Arthur Stuart-Menteth) Hutchinson
The correct poise of the left hand, as conspicuously shown by Heifetz for instance, throws the extreme tips of the fingers hammerlike on the strings, and renders full pressure of the string easy.
From Violin Mastery Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers by Frederick Herman Martens
