What is another word for hammers?

Pronunciation: [hˈaməz] (IPA)

Hammers are tools used for driving nails into wood or breaking hard objects. There are many synonyms that can be used for this word, such as mallets, gavels, pounders, mauls, crushers, and sledgehammers. A mallet is a hammer with a rounded head, used for light work. A gavel is a small hammer used by judges in court. Pounders are hammers with heavy heads, used for pounding things flat. Mauls are large hammers used for splitting wood. Crushers are heavy hammers used for breaking down rocks into smaller pieces. Sledgehammers are the largest type of hammers and are used for demolishing concrete structures.

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Usage examples for Hammers

With my boiled linen and my brain stuffed with texts I gradually drew away from the chimney-corner and never again did I help Willie Withero to carry his hammers.
"My Lady of the Chimney Corner"
Alexander Irvine
His pulse and his temples beat like sledge hammers; his lips moved in fervent prayer.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Then little lithe figures crawled out along the beams of the trestle, and there was a ringing of hammers.
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton

Famous quotes with Hammers

  • Sure, things could always have been done better, but I just wish people would drop their political hammers for a few weeks, as happened in 2001, and work on the problem at hand.
    Mitch Daniels
  • When I read the script sometimes, it's like 'Christ! Enough!' I can't sleep at night sometimes. There's the occasional script that just hammers you, that you can't shower off.
    Mariska Hargitay
  • Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers, which are always repulsed by the anvil.
    Claude Adrien Helvetius
  • Time passed by. I had furnished steam hammers to the principal foundries in England. I had sent them abroad, even to Russia. At length it became known to the Lords of the Admiralty that a new power in forging had been introduced.
    James Nasmyth
  • Canada is not so much a country as a holding tank filled with the disgruntled progeny of defeated peoples. French-Canadians consumed by self-pity; the descendants of Scots who fled the Duke of Cumberland; Irish, the famine; and Jews, the Black Hundreds. Then there are the peasants from Ukraine, Poland, Italy and Greece, convenient to grow wheat and dig out the ore and swing the hammers and run the restaurants, but otherwise to be kept in their place. Most of us are huddled tight to the border, looking into the candy store window, scared of the Americans on one side and of the bush on the other.
    Mordecai Richler

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