hammerest

Verb

hammer (third-person singular simple present hammers, present participle hammering, simple past and past participle hammered)

1. To strike repeatedly with a hammer, some other implement, the fist, etc.
   • Tony hammered on the door to try to get him to open.
2. To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.
   • hammered money1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC
3. (figuratively) To emphasize a point repeatedly.
4. (usually) To hit particularly hard.
   • This time the defender was teed up by Andrew Johnson's short free-kick on the edge of the box and Baird hammered his low drive beyond Begovic's outstretched left arm and into the bottom corner, doubling his goal tally for the season and stunning the home crowd.2010 December 28, Marc Vesty, “Stoke 0 - 2 Fulham”, in BBC
5. (intransitive, slang) To ride very fast.
   • Fifteen minutes later, leaving a vapour trail of kitchen smells, I hammered into Obterre.2011, Tim Moore, French Revolutions: Cycling the Tour de France, page 58
6. (intransitive) To strike internally, as if hit by a hammer.
   • I could hear the engine’s valves hammering once the timing rod was thrown.

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