Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: hammered
IPA transcription: [h'æmɚd]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: hammered
    Meaning: shaped or worked with a hammer and often showing hammer marks; "a bowl of hammered brass"
Usage examples
  • Ptah moulded the first man on his potter's wheel: he also moulded the sun and moon; he shaped the universe and hammered out the copper sky.
  • The stone is chipped by the hammer alone into pieces of the required thickness, which are fashioned by being laid upon the fixed chisel, and hammered against it.
  • It seems to have been more malleable than gold; to have been hammered out to an extent that covers boundless regions undiscovered by those who proclaimed the doctrine.
  • Beneath us the green tumult churning, above us the cavernous gloom; Around us, swift twisting and turning, the black, sullen walls of a tomb. We spun like a chip in a mill-race; our hearts hammered under the test; Then--oh, the relief on each chill face!--we soared into sunlight and rest.