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Hammer

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

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Verb group 2

Forge 84% connected

A place or establishment where iron or other metals are wrought by heating and hammering; especially, a furnace, or a shop with its furnace, etc., wh…

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Forge 84% connected

A place or establishment where iron or other metals are wrought by heating and hammering; especially, a furnace, or a shop with its furnace, etc., wh…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Broader term 4

Beat 76% connected

of Beat

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Blow 76% connected

To flower; to blossom; to bloom.

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Drumstick 76% connected

A stick with which a drum is beaten.

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Striker 76% connected

One who, or that which, strikes; specifically, a blacksmith's helper who wields the sledge.

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Narrower term 4

Beetle 76% connected

A heavy mallet, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc.

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Mallet 76% connected

A small maul with a short handle, -- used esp. for driving a tool, as a chisel or the like; also, a light beetle with a long handle, -- used in playi…

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Maul 76% connected

A heavy wooden hammer or beetle.

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Sledge 76% connected

A strong vehicle with low runners or low wheels; or one without wheels or runners, made of plank slightly turned up at one end, used for transporting…

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Manner of action 2

Foliate 76% connected

Furnished with leaves; leafy; as, a foliate stalk.

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Sledge 76% connected

A strong vehicle with low runners or low wheels; or one without wheels or runners, made of plank slightly turned up at one end, used for transporting…

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Cock 74% connected

The male of birds, particularly of gallinaceous or domestic fowls.

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Cock 74% connected

The male of birds, particularly of gallinaceous or domestic fowls.

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Pound 74% connected

To strike repeatedly with some heavy instrument; to beat.

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Pound 74% connected

To strike repeatedly with some heavy instrument; to beat.

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Containing whole 2

Gunlock 70% connected

The lock of a gun, for producing the discharge. See Lock.

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Tympanum 70% connected

The ear drum, or middle ear. Sometimes applied incorrectly to the tympanic membrane. See Ear.

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Component part 2

Hammerhead 70% connected

A shark of the genus Sphyrna or Zygaena, having the eyes set on projections from the sides of the head, which gives it a hammer shape. The Sphyrna zy…

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Head 70% connected

The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher animals, the c…

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Synonym 7

Cock 92% connected

The male of birds, particularly of gallinaceous or domestic fowls.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Forge 92% connected

A place or establishment where iron or other metals are wrought by heating and hammering; especially, a furnace, or a shop with its furnace, etc., wh…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Hammering 92% connected

of Hammer

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Mallet 92% connected

A small maul with a short handle, -- used esp. for driving a tool, as a chisel or the like; also, a light beetle with a long handle, -- used in playi…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Malleus 92% connected

The outermost of the three small auditory bones, ossicles; the hammer. It is attached to the tympanic membrane by a long process, the handle or manub…

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Pound 92% connected

To strike repeatedly with some heavy instrument; to beat.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Pounding 92% connected

of Pound

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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