📒 a tool with a handle and a heavy metal head, used for breaking things or hitting nails
📒 a tool with a handle and a wooden head, used by a person in charge of an auction (= a sale at which things are sold to the person who offers the most money) in order to get people’s attention when something is just being sold
📒 a small wooden part inside a piano, that hits the strings to produce a sound
📒 a part inside a gun that makes the gun fire
📒 a metal ball attached to a wire, thrown as a sport
📒 the event or sport of throwing the hammer
📒 the first of three small bones in the middle ear that carry sound to the inner ear
📒 if two people are at it hammer and tongs or go at it hammer and tongs, they argue or fight with a lot of energy and noise