hammer

გამოთქმა: /ˈhamə/

Universal

1a tool with a heavy metal head mounted at right angles at the end of a handle, used for jobs such as breaking things and driving in nails.
a machine with a metal block for giving a heavy blow to something.
an auctioneer’s gavel, tapped to indicate a sale.
a part of a mechanism that hits another part to make it work, such as one exploding the charge in a gun or one striking the strings of a piano.

2a metal ball of about 7 kg attached to a wire for throwing in an athletic contest.
(the hammer) the sport of throwing a hammer.

Universal

1hit or beat (something) repeatedly with a hammer or similar object:he hammered the tack in
[no object] strike or knock at or on something violently with one’s hand or with a hammer or other object:she hammered on his door [with object]:he hammered the ball wildly over the crossbar
[no object] (hammer away) work hard and persistently:they must hammer away at these twin themes day after day
(hammer something in/into) inculcate something forcefully or repeatedly:a commercial image that was hammered into English consciousness

2 informal attack or criticize forcefully and relentlessly:he got hammered for an honest mistake
utterly defeat in a game or contest:they hammered St Mirren 4-0

3 Stock Exchange, informal beat down the price of (a stock): sceptical investors hammered the computer company’s stock

4 Stock Exchange declare (a person or company) a defaulter: Willis was hammered in the recession
[from the practice of striking three strokes with a mallet on the side of a rostrum in the Stock Exchange before a formal declaration of default]

come (or go) under the hammer: be sold at an auction.
hammer and tongs: informal energetically, enthusiastically, or with great vehemence:racehorses going at it hammer and tongs
hammer something home: see home.

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