Synonyms of the word

hammer

• n. A tool with a heavy head and a handle used for pounding.
• n. A moving part of a firearm that strikes the firing pin to discharge a gun.
• n. (anatomy) The malleus, a small bone of the middle ear.
• n. (music) In a piano or dulcimer, a piece of wood covered in felt that strikes the string.
• n. (sports) A device made of a heavy steel ball attached to a length of wire, and used for throwing.
• n. (curling) The last rock in an end.
• n. (Ultimate Frisbee) A frisbee throwing style in which the disc is held upside-down with a forehand grip…
• n. Part of a clock that strikes upon a bell to indicate the hour.
• n. One who, or that which, smites or shatters.
• v. To strike repeatedly with a hammer, some other implement, the fist, etc.
• v. To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.
• v. (figuratively) To emphasize a point repeatedly.
• v. (sports) To hit particularly hard.
• v. (cycling, intransitive, slang) To ride very fast.
• v. (intransitive) To strike internally, as if hit by a hammer.
• v. (transitive, figuratively, sports) To defeat (a person, a team) resoundingly.

beat

• n. A stroke; a blow.
• n. A pulsation or throb.
• n. A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is…
• n. A rhythm.
• n. The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency.
• n. A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
• n. The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
• n. (by extension) An area of a person's responsibility, especially.
• n. (dated) An act of reporting news or scientific results before a rival; a scoop.
• n. (colloquial, dated) That which beats, or surpasses, another or others.
• n. (dated) A place of habitual or frequent resort.
• n. (archaic) A low cheat or swindler.
• n. The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
• n. (hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those…
• n. (fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
• v. (transitive) To hit; to knock; to pound; to strike.
• v. (transitive) To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
• v. (intransitive) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
• v. (intransitive) To move with pulsation or throbbing.
• v. (transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do better than, outdo, or excel (someone) in a…
• v. (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
• v. (transitive) To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc…
• v. To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
• v. (transitive, Britain, In haggling for a price) of a buyer, to persuade the seller to reduce a price.
• v. (transitive) To indicate by beating or drumming.
• v. To tread, as a path.
• v. To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
• v. To be in agitation or doubt.
• v. To make a sound when struck.
• v. (military, intransitive) To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
• v. To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating…
• v. (transitive) To arrive at a place before someone.
• adj. (US slang) exhausted.
• adj. dilapidated, beat up.
• adj. (gay slang) fabulous.
• adj. (slang) boring.
• adj. (slang, of a person) ugly.
• n. A beatnik.

blow

• adj. (now chiefly dialectal, Northern England) Blue.
• v. (intransitive) To produce an air current.
• v. (transitive) To propel by an air current.
• v. (intransitive) To be propelled by an air current.
• v. (transitive) To create or shape by blowing; as in to blow bubbles, to blow glass.
• v. To force a current of air upon with the mouth, or by other means.
• v. To clear of contents by forcing air through.
• v. (transitive) To cause to make sound by blowing, as a musical instrument.
• v. (intransitive) To make a sound as the result of being blown.
• v. (intransitive, of a cetacean) To exhale visibly through the spout the seawater which it has taken in while…
• v. (intransitive) To explode.
• v. (transitive, with "up" or with prep phrase headed by "to") To cause to explode, shatter, or be utterly…
• v. (transitive) To cause sudden destruction of.
• v. (intransitive) To suddenly fail destructively.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To be very undesirable (see also suck).
• v. (transitive, slang) To recklessly squander.
• v. (transitive, vulgar) To fellate.
• v. (transitive) To leave.
• v. To make flyblown, to defile, especially with fly eggs.
• v. (obsolete) To spread by report; to publish; to disclose.
• v. (obsolete) To inflate, as with pride; to puff up.
• v. (intransitive) To breathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff.
• v. (transitive) To put out of breath; to cause to blow from fatigue.
• v. (obsolete) To talk loudly; to boast; to storm.
• v. (slang, informal, African American Vernacular) To sing.
• n. A strong wind.
• n. (informal) A chance to catch one’s breath.
• n. (uncountable, US, slang) Cocaine.
• n. (uncountable, Britain, slang) Cannabis.
• n. (uncountable, US Chicago Regional, slang) Heroin.
• n. The act of striking or hitting.
• n. A sudden or forcible act or effort; an assault.
• n. A damaging occurrence.
• v. To blossom; to cause to bloom or blossom.
• n. A mass or display of flowers; a yield.
• n. A display of anything brilliant or bright.
• n. A bloom, state of flowering.

cock

• n. A male bird, especially.
• n. A valve or tap for controlling flow in plumbing.
• n. The hammer of a firearm trigger mechanism.
• n. The notch of an arrow or crossbow.
• n. (slang, vulgar) The penis.
• n. (curling) The circle at the end of the rink.
• n. The state of being cocked; an upward turn, tilt or angle.
• n. (Britain, New Zealand, pejorative, slang) A stupid person.
• n. (informal, Britain, Tasmania) Term of address.
• n. A boastful tilt of one's head or hat.
• n. (informal) shuttlecock.
• n. A vane in the shape of a cock; a weathercock.
• n. (dated, humorous) A chief man; a leader or master.
• n. The crow of a cock, especially the first crow in the morning; cockcrow.
• n. The style or gnomon of a sundial.
• n. The indicator of a balance.
• n. The bridge piece that affords a bearing for the pivot of a balance in a clock or watch.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To lift the cock of a firearm or crossbow; to prepare (a gun or crossbow) to…
• v. (intransitive) To be prepared to be triggered by having the cock lifted.
• v. (transitive) To erect; to turn up.
• v. (Britain, transitive, slang) To copulate with.
• v. (transitive) To turn or twist something upwards or to one side; to lift or tilt (e.g. headwear) boastfully.
• v. (intransitive, dated) To turn (the eye) obliquely and partially close its lid, as an expression of derision…
• v. (intransitive, dated) To strut; to swagger; to look big, pert, or menacing.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To make a nestle-cock of, to pamper or spoil (of children).
• interj. (slang) Expression of annoyance.
• n. (dated in the Southern US, still sometimes found in African American Vernacular) Vulva, vagina.
• n. A small conical pile of hay.
• v. (transitive) To form into piles.
• n. Short for cock-boat, a type of small boat.
• p.n. (obsolete) A corruption of the word God, used in oaths.

forge

• n. Furnace or hearth where metals are heated prior to hammering them into shape.
• n. Workshop in which metals are shaped by heating and hammering them.
• n. The act of beating or working iron or steel.
• v. (metallurgy) To shape a metal by heating and hammering.
• v. To form or create with concerted effort.
• v. To create a forgery of; to make a counterfeit item of; to copy or imitate unlawfully.
• v. To make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or not genuine; to fabricate.
• v. (often as forge ahead) To move forward heavily and slowly (originally as a ship); to advance gradually…
• v. (sometimes as forge ahead) To advance, move or act with an abrupt increase in speed or energy.

hammering

• n. A period of being beaten or hammered.
• n. A heavy defeat.
• v. present participle of hammer.

malleus

• n. (anatomy) The small hammer-shaped bone of the middle ear.
• n. (ichthyology) The tripus (ossicle in cypriniform fishes).
• n. (zoology) One of the paired calcareous structures within the mastax of rotifers.

pound

• n. A unit of mass equal to 16 avoirdupois ounces (= 453.592 37 g). Today this value is the most common meaning…
• n. A unit of mass equal to 12 troy ounces (≈ 373.242 g). Today, this is a common unit of weight when measuring…
• n. (US) The symbol # (octothorpe, hash).
• n. The unit of currency used in the United Kingdom and its dependencies. It is divided into 100 pence.
• n. Any of various units of currency used in Egypt and Lebanon, and formerly in the Republic of Ireland, Cyprus…
• n. Any of various units of currency formerly used in the United States.
• n. Abbreviation for pound-force, a unit of force/weight. Using this abbreviation to describe pound-force…
• n. A place for the detention of stray or wandering animals. An animal shelter.
• n. A place for the detention of automobiles that have been illegally parked, abandoned, etc. Short form of…
• n. A section of a canal between two adjacent locks.
• n. A kind of fishing net, having a large enclosure with a narrow entrance into which fish are directed by…
• v. To confine in, or as in, a pound; to impound.
• v. (transitive) To strike hard, usually repeatedly.
• v. (transitive) To crush to pieces; to pulverize.
• v. (transitive, slang) To eat or drink very quickly.
• v. (transitive, baseball, slang) To pitch consistently to a certain location.
• v. (intransitive, of a body part, generally heart, blood, or head) To beat strongly or throb.
• v. (transitive, slang) To penetrate sexually, with vigour.
• v. To advance heavily with measured steps.
• v. (engineering) To make a jarring noise, as when running.
• v. (slang, dated) To wager a pound on.
• n. A hard blow.

pounding

• v. present participle of pound.
• n. An act in which something or someone is pounded.
• adj. Causing heavy or loud throbs.

striker

• n. An individual who is on strike.
• n. Someone or something that hits someone or something else.
• n. (soccer) One of the players on a team in football (soccer) in the row nearest to the opposing team's goal,…
• n. (military, slang) An officer's servant or orderly.
• n. (baseball, slang, 1800s) The batter.
• n. (cricket) The batsman who is currently facing the bowler and defending his wicket.
• n. (obsolete) A harpoon.
• n. (obsolete) A harpooner.
• n. (obsolete) A wencher; a lewd man.
• n. (obsolete, politics) A blackmailer in politics.
• n. (obsolete, politics) One whose political influence can be bought.