HAMMERING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hammering mean? 

• HAMMERING (noun)
  The noun HAMMERING has 1 sense:

1. the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows)

  Familiarity information: HAMMERING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HAMMERING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

hammer; hammering; pound; pounding

Context example:

the pounding of feet on the hallway

Hypernyms ("hammering" is a kind of...):

blow (a powerful stroke with the fist or a weapon)

Derivation:

hammer (beat with or as if with a hammer)

 Context examples 

At the same time there came from a workshop across a little yard outside the window, a regular sound of hammering that kept a kind of tune: RAT—tat-tat, RAT—tat-tat, RAT—tat-tat, without any variation.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

There is a sound of hammering; it is the box being nailed down.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

A good deal of hammering went on before the curtain rose again, but when it became evident what a masterpiece of stage carpentery had been got up, no one murmured at the delay.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

We had no more than begun work when the sound of my knocking and hammering brought Wolf Larsen.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Yet with consummate horsemanship they both swung round in a long curvet, and then plucking out their swords they lashed at each other like two lusty smiths hammering upon an anvil.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Still, there is an upside to having Saturn and Pluto hammering you professionally, for you have become wiser and have grown in authority—this terrible boss or client may have brought out the best in you (although you may not want to admit it).

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

So they set to work in one of the big yellow rooms of the castle and worked for three days and four nights, hammering and twisting and bending and soldering and polishing and pounding at the legs and body and head of the Tin Woodman, until at last he was straightened out into his old form, and his joints worked as well as ever.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

She bruised her hands with hammering, and got cold working in a draft, which last affliction filled her with apprehensions for the morrow.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

“Well, we don’t,” I concluded defiantly, beginning again my knocking and hammering.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

If he cannot speak like an Englishman I trow that he can fight like an Englishman, and he was hammering at the gates of Paris while ale-house topers were grutching and grumbling at home.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)