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h or plane, as a metallic surface; to condense, toughen, and polish by light blows with a hammer.

o cover or overlay with gold, silver, or other metals, either by a mechanical process, as hammering, or by a chemical process, as electrotyping.

ng flat, thin, or insipid; flat commonness; triteness; staleness of ideas of language. To hammer one golden grain of wit into a sheet of infinite platitude. Motley.

d and daily). Milton. He was forced to ply in the streets as a porter. Addison. The heavy hammers and mallets plied. Longfellow.

The broad end of a hammer; the but of an ax.

h a heavy forging is attached, and by means of which the forging is lifted and handled is hammering and heating; -- called also porter bar.

The lump of pasty wrought iron as taken from the puddling furnace to be hammered or rolled.

An iron bar made at a single heat from a puddle-ball hammering and rolling.

ration of embossing sheet metal, or of forming it into cup- shaped or hollow articles, by hammering, stamping, or spinning. Raising bee, a bee for raising the frame of a building. See Bee, n.,

The weight which strikes the blow, in a pile driver, steam hammer, stamp mill, or the like.

bound again or repeatedly, as a horse. Pope. Rebounding lock (Firearms), one in which the hammer rebounds to half cock after striking the cap or primer.

-- said especially of metals and the like, which do not readily yield to heat, or to the hammer; as, a refractory ore.

Art or process of hammering out or pressing thin metal from the reverse side: (1) in producing repoussé work; (2) in leveling up any part of an etched plate that has been worked so as to cause a depression.

Ornamented with patterns in relief made by pressing or hammering on the reverse side; -- said of thin metal, or of a vessel made of thin metal. -- n.

read out and form a second head; a pin or bolt headed or clinched at both ends. With busy hammers closing rivets up. Shak. Rivet joint, or Riveted joint, a joint between two or more pieces secured by rivets.

knife; adapted for removing scale, as from the interior of a steam boiler; as, a scaling hammer, bar, etc.

The catch in a gunlock by which the hammer is held cocked or half cocked. Sear spring, the spring which causes the sear to catch in the notches by which the hammer is held.

Adjusted; arranged; formed; adapted. Set hammer. (a) A hammer the head of which is not tightly fastened upon the handle, but may be reversed. Knight. (b) A hammer with a concave face which forms a die for shaping anything, as the end of a bolt, rivet, etc. -- Set line, a line to which a number of baited hooks are atta…

The handle or helve of certain tools, instruments, etc., as a hammer, a whip, etc.

A rolled or hammered piece, as a bar, beam, angle iron, etc., having a cross section different from merchant bar.