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▪ I. hammering, vbl. n.|ˈhæmərɪŋ|
[-ing1.]
1. The action of striking, knocking, or beating out with a hammer; the dealing of hard reiterated blows as with a hammer. Also fig.
1563W. Fulke Meteors v. (1640) 67 Copper is most like to Silver in the waight, and in the hammering. 1612–15Bp. Hall Contempl., O.T. xx. xxi, After a thousand hammerings of the menaces of Gods law. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1852) II. 676, I have found the first working too laborious to leave me strength for a second hammering. 1811Sporting Mag. XXXVII. 18 He stood the hammering of his antagonist..with uncommon firmness. 1883W. E. Norris No New Thing III. xxxv. 224 I'll give you such a hammering that you won't do it again for a year.
attrib.1824W. Irving T. Trav. II. 41 My door became a hammering place for every bailiff in the county. 1875Buckland Log-bk. 32 A beaver using his tail as a hammering instrument.
2. fig.
†a. Devising, contriving, or constructing.
1589Pappe w. Hatchet (1844) 34 Newe alterations were in hammering. 1626Crt. & Times Chas. I (1848) I. 150 There is a hammering..a brave design to set forth the next spring.
b. Stock Exchange slang. (See hammer v. 2 d.)
1893Times 19 Dec. 11/3 ‘Bears’ assisted the decline by ‘hammering’.
c. Of grapes: see hammered b.
1882Garden 21 Jan. 50/3 The views of those who have maintained that the hammering was due to culture more than anything else.
3. Hesitation in speech, stammering.
1731Wodrow Corr. (1843) III. 489, I never..saw so much hammering and indecency in delivery. 1828Craven Dial., Hammering, stammering.
▪ II. hammering ppl. a.
That hammers.
1639S. Du Verger tr. Camus' Admir. Events 129 That puts a thousand hammering suspitions into thy head. 1895Athenæum 24 Aug. 257/1 It is the hammering alliteration which he especially adopts. |