HAMMER - Definition & Meaning for Kids
Meaning 1
Part of speech: Verb
beat with or as if with a hammer
Example: hammer the metal flat
Categories: Beat
📖 Fun Facts About Hammer
- • A hammer is a simple tool used for hitting nails into things — it’s been around for thousands of years!
Meaning 2
Part of speech: Noun
a hand tool with a heavy rigid head and a handle; used to deliver an impulsive force by striking
Categories: Hand tool
Meaning 3
Part of speech: Noun
a heavy metal sphere attached to a flexible wire; used in the hammer throw
Categories: Sports equipment
Meaning 4
Part of speech: Noun
a striker that is covered in felt and that causes the piano strings to vibrate
Categories: Striker
Meaning 5
Part of speech: Noun
a power tool for drilling rocks
Categories: Power tool
Meaning 6
Part of speech: Noun
the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows)
Example: the sudden hammer of fists caught him off guard; the pounding of feet on the hallway
Categories: Blow
Synonyms
Forge, Pounding, Pound, Mallet, Power hammer
🌱 Word Origin (Etymology)
The word "hammer" comes from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱmoros. It started in Proto-Germanic *hamaraz. Then it appeared in Proto-West Germanic *hamar. Later, people used it in Old English hamor. After that, it was Middle English hamer. Many other languages have similar words:.
- West Frisian: hammer
- Low German: Hamer
- Dutch: hamer
- German: Hammer
- Danish: hammer
- Swedish: hammare
- Sanskrit: अश्मर
- Lithuanian: akmuõ
- Latvian: akmens
- Russian: камень
- Serbo-Croatian: kamēn
- Albanian: kmesë
- Ancient Greek: ἄκμων
- Avestan: 𐬥𐬀𐬨𐬯𐬀
- Sanskrit: अश्मन्
🧩 Fun Fact
Each civilization borrowed this word because they encountered the concept through cultural contact.