A small hammer that can be used with one hand, esp. that used by a blacksmith; (later also) a hammer used by hand.

A hammer; esp. a heavy iron hammer, a sledgehammer. In later use also: spec. any of various special kinds of heavy hammer or beetle used in…

(a) a heavy hammer for fixing and clinching nails in plates; (b) any of various power hammers used to beat metal into plates or sheets.

A hammer used in bucking ore (see quot.).

a tool consisting of an axe and hammer combined; cf. hammer-axe n. at hammer, n.1 compounds 3.

A masonry hammer having a head that is flat (and often square in profile) on one side and chisel-shaped on the other, typically used for cutting or…

a hammer with a head that is pointed at one end and (typically) shaped like a chisel at the other, used to chip apart hard or fused materials…

transferred (a) A pavier's mallet. (b) The head of a forge-hammer or steam-hammer. (c) The falling weight of a pile-engine.

a hammer used for clinching.

a light hammer for driving tacks; also as v. transitive.

A peculiar manner of bruising ore practised in mines in Cornwall and Derbyshire; see quot. Attributive in bucking hammer, bucking iron, bucking plate.

‘A hammer swelled at the eye.’ Raymond Mining Gloss. 1881.

Mining. A type of hammer. Obsolete. rare.

(a) Music each of the hammers which strikes the strings in a piano; = hammer, n.1 2f(b); †(b) a hammer for driving in keys (sense A. 12a) (obsolete).

a hammer having a sharp peen.

designating a type of hammer which has the pein in line with the handle; frequently absolute as n.

a miniature hammer such as may be used to break pieces of toffee.