Hammer vs Hummer - What's the difference?
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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
One who hums.
(informal) A humvee.
(informal) A type of vehicle resembling a jeep but bulkier.
(informal) A hummingbird.
(informal) A humdinger.
(baseball) A fastball.
(slang) Fellatio in which the person performing the act vibrates their mouth by humming.
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In lang=en terms the difference between hammer and hummer
is that hammer is in a piano or dulcimer, a piece of wood covered in felt that strikes the string while hummer is fellatio in which the person performing the act vibrates their mouth by humming.As nouns the difference between hammer and hummer
is that hammer is a tool with a heavy head and a handle used for pounding while hummer is one who hums.As a verb hammer
is to strike repeatedly with a hammer, some other implement, the fist, etc.As a proper noun Hummer is
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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!
Derived terms
* (adjective) * hammerer * (verb)See also
* hammer outhummer
English
Noun
(en noun)- The newlyweds took a hummer limo back to their casino resort.
