Hammer vs. Maul

Hammernoun

A tool with a heavy head and a handle used for pounding.

Hammernoun

A moving part of a firearm that strikes the firing pin to discharge a gun.

Hammernoun

(anatomy) The malleus, a small bone of the middle ear.

Hammernoun

(music) In a piano or dulcimer, a piece of wood covered in felt that strikes the string.

Hammernoun

(sports) A device made of a heavy steel ball attached to a length of wire, and used for throwing.

Hammernoun

(curling) The last stone in an end.

Hammernoun

(Ultimate Frisbee) A frisbee throwing style in which the disc is held upside-down with a forehand grip and thrown above the head.

Hammernoun

Part of a clock that strikes upon a bell to indicate the hour.

Hammernoun

One who, or that which, smites or shatters.

Hammerverb

To strike repeatedly with a hammer, some other implement, the fist, etc.

Hammerverb

To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.

Hammerverb

(figuratively) To emphasize a point repeatedly.

Hammerverb

(sports) To hit particularly hard.

Hammerverb

To ride very fast.

Hammerverb

(intransitive) To strike internally, as if hit by a hammer.

Hammerverb

To defeat (a person, a team) resoundingly

Hammernoun

An instrument for driving nails, beating metals, and the like, consisting of a head, usually of steel or iron, fixed crosswise to a handle.

Hammernoun

Something which in form or action resembles the common hammer

Hammernoun

A spherical weight attached to a flexible handle and hurled from a mark or ring. The weight of head and handle is usually not less than 16 pounds.

Hammerverb

To beat with a hammer; to beat with heavy blows; as, to hammer iron.

Hammerverb

To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.

Hammerverb

To form in the mind; to shape by hard intellectual labor; - usually with out.

Hammerverb

To be busy forming anything; to labor hard as if shaping something with a hammer.

Hammerverb

To strike repeated blows, literally or figuratively.

Hammernoun

the part of a gunlock that strikes the percussion cap when the trigger is pulled

Hammernoun

a hand tool with a heavy rigid head and a handle; used to deliver an impulsive force by striking

Hammernoun

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

Hammernoun

the ossicle attached to the eardrum

Hammernoun

a heavy metal sphere attached to a flexible wire; used in the hammer throw

Hammernoun

a striker that is covered in felt and that causes the piano strings to vibrate

Hammernoun

a power tool for drilling rocks

Hammernoun

the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows);

Hammerverb

beat with or as if with a hammer;

Hammerverb

create by hammering;

Hammer

A hammer is a tool, most often a hand tool, consisting of a weighted fixed to a long handle that is swung to deliver an impact to a small area of an object. This can be, for example, to drive nails into wood, to shape metal (as with a forge), or to crush rock.

Maulnoun

A heavy long-handled hammer, used for splitting logs by driving a wedge into them, or in combat.

Maulnoun

(rugby) A situation where the player carrying the ball, who must be on his feet, is held by one or more opponents, and one or more of the ball carrier's team mates bind onto the ball carrier.

Maulverb

To handle someone or something in a rough way.

Maulverb

To savage; to cause serious physical wounds usually used of an animal.

Maulverb

(figuratively) To criticise harshly.

Maulnoun

A heavy wooden hammer or beetle.

Maulverb

To beat and bruise with a heavy stick or cudgel; to wound in a coarse manner.

Maulverb

To injure greatly; to do much harm to.

Maulnoun

a heavy long-handled hammer used to drive stakes or wedges

Maulverb

split (wood) with a maul and wedges

Maulverb

injure badly by beating