Word.ws English Dictionary

knights of the hammer

knights of the hammer is the plural of knight of the hammer.

Meaning of knight of the hammer

Noun

knight of the hammer (plural knights of the hammer)

  1. (archaic, humorous) An auctioneer.
    • As there was no newspaper in the district, the local knight of the hammer engaged to post up written notices, and send round and tell the boys to "roll up." After breakfast the next morning we got in all our horses, and sorted guns, saddlery, &c., into lots for the auction sale.1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 344

Questions about knights of the hammer

What is knights of the hammer the plural of?
Knights of the hammer is the plural of knight of the hammer.

Words near knights of the hammer in the dictionary

  1. Knights of Pythias
  2. Knights of Rhodes
  3. Knights of the Golden Circle
  4. knights of the green baize
  5. knights of the green cloth
  6. knights of the hammer
  7. knights of the needle
  8. knights of the pen
  9. knights of the pestle
  10. knights of the post
  11. knights of the road

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: knights of the hammer (page history and authors); knight of the hammer (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “knights of the hammer.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/knights_of_the_hammer. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.