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e, consisting of a head, usually of steel or iron, fixed crosswise to a handle. With busy hammers closing rivets up. Shak.

An interrupter in which contact is broken by the movement of an automatically vibrating hammer between a contact piece and an electromagnet, or of a rapidly moving piece mechanically driven.

A hold in which an arm of one contestant is held twisted and bent behind his back by his opponent.

A member of one description of roof truss, called hammer-beam truss, which is so framed as not to have a tiebeam at the top of the wall. Each principal has two hammer-beams, which occupy the situation, and to some extent serve the purpose, of a tiebeam.

Having the surface roughly shaped or faced with the stonecutter's hammer; -- said of building stone.

To harden, as a metal, by hammering it in the cold state.

Without a visible hammer; -- said of a gun having a cock or striker concealed from sight, and out of the way of an accidental touch.

Capable of being formed or shaped by a hammer. Sherwood.

The cloth which covers a coach box.

One who works with a hammer.

r Zygæna, having the eyes set on projections from the sides of the head, which gives it a hammer shape. The Sphyrna zygæna is found in the North Atlantic. Called also hammer fish, and balance fish.

A bird of the Heron family; the umber.

A hammerer; a forgeman.

A hammer with a head formed of a bundle of square bars, with pyramidal points, arranged in rows, or a solid head with a face cut into a number of rows of such points; -- used for dressing stone.

The yellow-hammer.

A simpleton; a silly person. [Colloq.] Addison.

Having a surface dressed by cutting with a hammer the head of which consists of broad thin chisels clamped together.

One who shams; an impostor. Johnson.

A tilted hammer; a heavy hammer, used in iron works, which is lifted or tilted by projections or wipers on a revolving shaft; a trip hammer.

A tilt hammer.