Clues for the word "HAMMER"
We've had 56 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 72 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Easy crossword on October 27, 2025.
Definition of hammer
- n. - An instrument for driving nails, beating metals, and the like, consisting of a head, usually of steel or iron, fixed crosswise to a handle.
- n. - Something which in firm or action resembles the common hammer
- n. - That part of a clock which strikes upon the bell to indicate the hour.
- n. - The padded mallet of a piano, which strikes the wires, to produce the tones.
- n. - The malleus.
- n. - That part of a gunlock which strikes the percussion cap, or firing pin; the cock; formerly, however, a piece of steel covering the pan of a flintlock musket and struck by the flint of the cock to ignite the priming.
- n. - Also, a person of thing that smites or shatters; as, St. Augustine was the hammer of heresies.
- v. t. - To beat with a hammer; to beat with heavy blows; as, to hammer iron.
- v. t. - To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.
- v. t. - To form in the mind; to shape by hard intellectual labor; -- usually with out.
- v. i. - To be busy forming anything; to labor hard as if shaping something with a hammer.
- v. i. - To strike repeated blows, literally or figuratively.
Referring Clues
- Bell striker
- Ear's malleus, nonmedically
- Framer's tool
- Carpenter's tool
- Pound
- Word that can follow the ends of the answers to asterisked clues
- Track-and-field missile
- Nail driver
- Tool for a blacksmith
- It hits the nail on the head
- Thor's weapon
- Thor's weapon
- Carpentry tool
- Carpenter's need
- Toolbox item
- Tool
- Criticize severely
- Construction's Jack ______
- Weapon for Thor
- Spillane gumshoe
- Nail-hitting tool
- Tongs' partner
- Bang with it
- Gavel
- Hand tool
- Tool - trounce
- Shape of a twice-married female externally
- Nail banger
- Band returning after Meat Is Murder
- Bang on the Communist standard?
- Striking tool
- Poor performer has value, but loses it in strike
- Clawed tool?
- Lots are under it
- Mjollnir, a London soccer player?
- A very short way to split the woman's pound
- Beat decisively in a field event
- Tap beer container for 19
- Lots go under this sledge, for instance
- 15's beat
- Fictional detective in horror film
- Tool stocked by Grantham merchant
- Projectile in athletics field event
- Trounce in throwing event
- Striker in fustian, maybe yellow
- Criticise novel rejected inside 60 minutes
- "If I Had a ___"
- Nail crusher
- Certain tool
- Tool for driving in nails
- Work (out) with effort, as an agreement
- Beat and possibly harm me
- Hard-boiled sleuth Mike
- Rapper Stanley Burrell, familiarly
- Hit hard
- Carpenter's noisemaker
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Easy - October 27, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - July 18, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - July 16, 2025
- Penny Dell Sunday - November 10, 2024
- Daily American - August 07, 2024
- Penny Dell Sunday - May 05, 2024
- Daily American - March 29, 2024
- Family Time - January 08, 2024
- New York Times - October 25, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - September 28, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - May 04, 2023
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - April 21, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - January 24, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - November 03, 2022
- Daily American - August 07, 2022
- Netword - November 20, 2017
- Mirror Quick - November 09, 2017
- Guardian Quick - November 03, 2017
- Evening Standard Easy - July 27, 2017
- Mirror Quick - July 10, 2017
- Evening Standard Easy - October 26, 2016
- Guardian Cryptic - August 19, 2016
- Guardian Cryptic - May 06, 2016
- Netword - April 29, 2016
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - December 07, 2015
- Guardian Prize - August 16, 2014
- LA Times Sunday - July 06, 2014
- Wall Street Journal - April 25, 2014
- Guardian Speedy - March 23, 2014
- Universal - October 15, 2013
- And in 42 more crossword puzzles...