[ham-er] 
| 1. | a tool consisting of a solid head, usually of metal, set crosswise on a handle, used for beating metals, driving nails, etc. |
| 2. | any of various instruments or devices resembling this in form, action, or use, as a gavel, a mallet for playing the xylophone, or a lever that strikes the bell in a doorbell. |
| 3. | Firearms. the part of a lock that by its fall or action causes the discharge, as by exploding the percussion cap or striking the primer or firing pin; the cock. |
| 4. | one of the padded levers by which the strings of a piano are struck. |
| 5. | Track. a metal ball, usually weighing 16 lb. (7.3 kg), attached to a steel wire at the end of which is a grip, for throwing for distance in the hammer throw. |
| 6. | Anatomy. the malleus. |
| 7. | to beat or drive (a nail, peg, etc.) with a hammer. |
| 8. | to fasten by using hammer and nails; nail (often fol. by down, up, etc.): We spent the day hammering up announcements on fences and trees. |
| 9. | to assemble or build with a hammer and nails (often fol. by together): He hammered together a small crate. |
| 10. | to shape or ornament (metal or a metal object) by controlled and repeated blows of a hammer; beat out: to hammer brass; to hammer a brass bowl. |
| 11. | to form, construct, or make with or as if with a hammer; build by repeated, vigorous, or strenuous effort (often fol. by out or together): to hammer out an agreement; to hammer together a plot. |
| 12. | to produce with or by force (often fol. by out): to hammer out a tune on the piano; to hammer a home run. |
| 13. | to pound or hit forcefully: to hammer someone in the jaw. |
| 14. | to settle (a strong disagreement, argument, etc.); bring to an end, as by strenuous or repeated effort (usually fol. by out): They hammered out their differences over a glass of beer. |
| 15. | to present (points in an argument, an idea, etc.) forcefully or compellingly; state strongly, aggressively, and effectively (often fol. by home). |
| 16. | to impress (something) as if by hammer blows: You'll have to hammer the rules into his head. |
| 17. | British.
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| 18. | to strike blows with or as if with a hammer. |
| 19. | to make persistent or laborious attempts to finish or perfect something (sometimes fol. by away): He hammered away at his speech for days. |
| 20. | to reiterate; emphasize by repetition (often fol. by away): The teacher hammered away at the multiplication tables. |
| 21. | under the hammer, for sale at public auction: The old estate and all its furnishings went under the hammer. |
[ham-er] | Armand, 1898–1990, U.S. businessman and art patron. |
| ham·mer (hām'ər) n.
v. tr.
[Middle English hamer, from Old English hamor; see ak- in Indo-European roots.] ham'mer·er n. |
| mal·le·us (māl'ē-əs) n. pl. mal·le·i (māl'ē-ī') The hammer-shaped bone that is the outermost of the three small bones in the mammalian middle ear. Also called hammer. [Latin, hammer; see melə- in Indo-European roots.] |
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Hammer
A price pattern in candlestick charting that occurs when a security trades significantly lower than its opening, but rallies later in the day to close either above or close to its opening price. This pattern forms a hammer-shaped candlestick.
Investopedia Commentary
A hammer occurs after a security has been declining, possibly suggesting the market is attempting to determine a bottom.
The signal does not mean bullish investors have taken full control of a security, it simply indicates that the bulls are strengthening.
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hammer ham·mer (hām'ər)
n.
See malleus.
malleus mal·le·us (māl'ē-əs)
n. pl. mal·le·i (māl'ē-ī')
The hammer-shaped bone that is the outermost of the three auditory ossicles, articulating with the body of the incus. Also called hammer.
hammer
Commonwealth hackish synonym for bang on.
[The Jargon File]
(1995-02-16)
Hammer
(1.) Heb. pattish, used by gold-beaters (Isa. 41:7) and by quarry-men (Jer. 23:29). Metaphorically of Babylon (Jer. 50:23) or Nebuchadnezzar. (2.) Heb. makabah, a stone-cutter's mallet (1 Kings 6:7), or of any workman (Judg. 4:21; Isa. 44:12). (3.) Heb. halmuth, a poetical word for a workman's hammer, found only in Judg. 5:26, where it denotes the mallet with which the pins of the tent of the nomad are driven into the ground. (4.) Heb. mappets, rendered "battle-axe" in Jer. 51:20. This was properly a "mace," which is thus described by Rawlinson: "The Assyrian mace was a short, thin weapon, and must either have been made of a very tough wood or (and this is more probable) of metal. It had an ornamented head, which was sometimes very beautifully modelled, and generally a strap or string at the lower end by which it could be grasped with greater firmness."