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hammerer|ˈhæmərə(r)| [f. as prec. + -er1.] 1. One who hammers or wields a hammer; often, one who plies the geologist's hammer, a geologist. Also, as a specific occupation.
1611Cotgr., Marteleur, a hammerer; one that worketh with a hammer. 1631R. H. Arraignm. Whole Creature xii. §5. 146 All the late Hammerers of Papists. 1861Wilson & Geikie Mem. E. Forbes xii. 378 The geologists..half-a-dozen stalwart hammerers. 1890Nature 4 Sept., A source of regret to the whole brotherhood of hammerers. 1909Westm. Gaz. 8 Feb. 3/1 The man was a ‘hammerer’—i.e., a driver of rivets into boilers, &c. 1921Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) §278 Hammerer,..flattens saw blades,..by..striking any curved part with hammer. 2. ‘The three-wattled bell-bird of Costa Rica, Chasmorhynchus tricarunculatus’ (Cent. Dict.). |