Bludgeon vs Hammer - What's the difference?
bludgeon | hammer |
A short, heavy club, often of wood, which is thicker or loaded at one end.
To strike or hit with something hard, usually on the head; to club.
To coerce someone, as if with a bludgeon.
A tool with a heavy head and a handle used for pounding.
A moving part of a firearm that strikes the firing pin to discharge a gun.
(anatomy) The malleus of the ear.
(music) In a piano or dulcimer, a piece of wood covered in felt that strikes the string.
(sports) A device made of a heavy steel ball attached to a length of wire, and used for throwing.
(curling) The last rock in an end.
(Ultimate Frisbee) A frisbee throwing style in which the disc is held upside-down with a forehand grip and thrown above the head.
Part of a clock that strikes upon a bell to indicate the hour.
One who, or that which, smites or shatters.
* J. H. Newman
To strike repeatedly with a hammer, some other implement, the fist, etc.
To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.
* Dryden
(figuratively) To emphasize a point repeatedly.
(sports) To hit particularly hard.
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To strike internally, as if hit by a hammer.
(figuratively, sports) To defeat (a person, a team) resoundingly
As nouns the difference between bludgeon and hammer
is that bludgeon is a short, heavy club, often of wood, which is thicker or loaded at one end while hammer is a tool with a heavy head and a handle used for pounding.As verbs the difference between bludgeon and hammer
is that bludgeon is to strike or hit with something hard, usually on the head; to club while hammer is to strike repeatedly with a hammer, some other implement, the fist, etc.bludgeon
English
Noun
(en noun)- We smashed the radio with a steel bludgeon .
See also
* truncheonVerb
(en verb)- The apprehended rioter was bludgeoned to death.
- Their favorite method was bludgeoning us with the same old arguments in favor of their opinions.
Synonyms
* (to club) cudgel * (coerce) harrass, pummelDerived terms
* bludgeonerReferences
*hammer
English
(wikipedia hammer)Noun
(en noun)- St. Augustine was the hammer of heresies.
- He met the stern legionaries [of Rome] who had been the massive iron hammers of the whole earth.
Derived terms
* ball peen hammer * claw hammer * cross peen hammer * hammer and sickle * hammerhead * hammer toe * sledgehammer * straight peen hammer * war hammer * Warrington hammerSee also
* malletVerb
(en verb)- hammered money
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- I could hear the engine’s valves hammering once the timing rod was thrown.
- We hammered them 5-0!
