HAMMERED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hammered mean? 

• HAMMERED (adjective)
  The adjective HAMMERED has 1 sense:

1. shaped or worked with a hammer and often showing hammer marks

  Familiarity information: HAMMERED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HAMMERED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Shaped or worked with a hammer and often showing hammer marks

Classified under:

Participial adjectives

Context example:

a bowl of hammered brass

Participle:

hammer (create by hammering)

 Context examples 

Only Spencer and myself know how hard I hammered.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

On Wednesday it was still unfinished, so I hammered away until Friday—that is, yesterday.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was one of the irons I began to heat immediately, and one of the irons I kept hot, and hammered at, with a perseverance I may honestly admire.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I rushed down the garden path, hammered at the door, heard the voice of Gladys within, pushed past the staring maid, and strode into the sitting-room.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The lobster was a scarlet mystery to her, but she hammered and poked till it was unshelled and its meager proportions concealed in a grove of lettuce leaves.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

And next day Martin Eden cast hack-work aside, and at white heat hammered out an essay to which he gave the title, "The Philosophy of Illusion."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Failing there, he hammered it into the dogs with a club.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

His was a broken, jerky utterance, caused by the violence with which he hammered his numb hand upon the wood.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

You could have considerations about money that are keeping you in the situation, but no amount of money is worth seeing your self-esteem continually hammered into the ground.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The great box was in the same place, close against the wall, but the lid was laid on it, not fastened down, but with the nails ready in their places to be hammered home.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)