An athletic throwing event where the object to be thrown is a heavy steel ball attached with wire (maximum length 4 ft (1.22 m)) to a handle.

(music) A type of dulcimer whose metal strings are stretched over a trapezoidal sounding board that has two bridges, one bass and one treble, set on a stand and played with small mallet-like hammers.

(medicine) A tool used by physician to hit the body and test for certain reflexes.

(uncountable) A surge of pressure in a pipe carrying a fluid; especially the banging sound in a steam or hot water pipe caused by bubbles of air, or by an abrupt alteration of the flow.

(transitive) To come to (a difficult agreement or settlement) after much arguing and conflict.

plural of hammer-on

An industrial machine designed to produce a hammer action through steam power.

A depiction of a sickle crossed with a hammer, used as a symbol of communism and the Soviet Union. / (metonymically) Socialism or communism itself.

a hammer used by a blacksmith

(idiomatic) To repeatedly or continually emphasise (an opinion or idea) until or so that a person or group of people understands it.