Vocabulary : Hamite to Hammer-dressed
Hamite : A fossil cephalopod of the genus Hamites, related to the ammonites, but having the last whorl bent into a hooklike form. ;; A descendant of Ham, Noah's second son. See Gen. x. 6-20.Hamlet : A small village; a little cluster of houses in the country.
Hamleted : Confined to a hamlet.
Hammer : An instrument for driving nails, beating metals, and the like, consisting of a head, usually of steel or iron, fixed crosswise to a handle. ;; Something which in firm or action resembles the common hammer ;; That part of a clock which strikes upon the bell to indicate the hour. ;; The padded mallet of a piano, which strikes the wires, to produce the tones. ;; The malleus. ;; That part of a gunlock which strikes the percussion cap, or firing pin; the cock; formerly, however, a piece of steel covering the pan of a flintlock musket and struck by the flint of the cock to ignite the priming. ;; Also, a person of thing that smites or shatters; as, St. Augustine was the hammer of heresies. ;; To beat with a hammer; to beat with heavy blows; as, to hammer iron. ;; To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating. ;; To form in the mind; to shape by hard intellectual labor; -- usually with out. ;; To be busy forming anything; to labor hard as if shaping something with a hammer. ;; To strike repeated blows, literall
Hammer break : An interrupter in which contact is broken by the movement of an automatically vibrating hammer between a contact piece and an electromagnet, or of a rapidly moving piece mechanically driven.
