hammerern.
/ˈhamərə/ 1. One who hammers or wields a hammer; often, one who plies the geologist's hammer, a geologist. Also, as a specific occupation.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific tools or equipment > [noun] > with tools > with hammer
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1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Marteleur, a hammerer; one that worketh with a hammer.
1631 S. Jerome Arraignem. Whole Creature xii. §5. 146 All the late Hammerers of Papists.
1861 G. Wilson & A. Geikie Mem. E. Forbes xii. 378 The geologists..half-a-dozen stalwart hammerers.
1890 Nature 4 Sept. A source of regret to the whole brotherhood of hammerers.
1909 Westm. Gaz. 8 Feb. 3/1 The man was a ‘hammerer’—i.e., a driver of rivets into boilers, &c.
1921 Dict. 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.).
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