Hammer

Hammer is a demihuman character in the Squaresoft game Xenogears.

He looks something like a rat and something like a camel; if he is based on any actual species at all, the world will never know.

He was a prisoner in Kislev's prison block (D) until Fei Fong Wong and co. won their freedom. Hammer was friends with Rico Banderas in some sense or other.

Hammer's my idea of a kind of tragic hero. He hasn't got a happy ending--his feelings of inadequacy put him in with the wrong people and he ends up a wreck (literally). The moral of the story is never to let a mad scientist take advantage of your low self-esteem.

Infamous quote: "Master, sir, did you just see my MAD SKILLZ?!

Characteristic quote: "I'm different from you all! I'm not special like you!"

hammer vt.

Commonwealth hackish syn. for bang on.

--The Jargon File version 4.3.1, ed. ESR, autonoded by rescdsk.

In curling, a rink or Skip is said to have "the hammer" if they will take the last shot of the end. A coin is flipped to determine who has the hammer in the first end; after that, the team that does not score in an end gets the hammer in the next end. In the case of a blank end, the hammer is retained by the team that had it last.

In a close game, winning or losing may be determined by who has the hammer in the final end. A skip will often chose to forgo scoring a single point, and blank an end, in order to retain the hammer.

Ham"mer (-mər), n. [OE. hamer, AS. hamer, hamor; akin to D. hamer, G. & Dan. hammer, Sw. hammare, Icel. hamarr, hammer, crag, and perh. to Gr. 'a`kmwn anvil, Skr. açman stone.]

1.

An instrument for driving nails, beating metals, and the like, consisting of a head, usually of steel or iron, fixed crosswise to a handle.

With busy hammers closing rivets up.
Shak.

2.

Something which in form or action resembles the common hammer; as:

(a)

That part of a clock which strikes upon the bell to indicate the hour.

(b)

The padded mallet of a piano, which strikes the wires, to produce the tones.

(c) (Anat.)

The malleus. See under Ear.

(d) (Gun.)

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.

(e)

Also, a person or thing that smites or shatters; as, St. Augustine was the hammer of heresies.

He met the stern legionaries [of Rome] who had been the "massive iron hammers" of the whole earth.
J. H. Newman.

Atmospheric hammer, a dead-stroke hammer in which the spring is formed by confined air. --
Drop hammer, Face hammer, etc. See under Drop, Face, etc. --
Hammer fish. See Hammerhead. --
Hammer hardening, the process of hardening metal by hammering it when cold. --
Hammer shell (Zoöl.), any species of Malleus, a genus of marine bivalve shells, allied to the pearl oysters, having the wings narrow and elongated, so as to give them a hammer-shaped outline; -- called also hammer oyster. --
To bring to the hammer, to put up at auction.

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Ham"mer, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hammered (-mərd); p. pr. & vb. n. Hammering.]

1.

To beat with a hammer; to beat with heavy blows; as, to hammer iron.

2.

To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating. "Hammered money." Dryden.

3.

To form in the mind; to shape by hard intellectual labor; -- usually with out.

Who was hammering out a penny dialogue.
Jeffry.

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Ham"mer, v. i.

1.

To be busy forming anything; to labor hard as if shaping something with a hammer.

Whereon this month I have been hammering.
Shak.

2.

To strike repeated blows, literally or figuratively.

Blood and revenge are hammering in my head.
Shak.

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Ham"mer, n. (Athletics)

A spherical weight attached to a flexible handle and hurled from a mark or ring. The weight of head and handle is usually not less than 16 pounds.

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