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HAMMERED
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I. (adjective)
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Meaning:
Shaped or worked with a hammer and often showing hammer marks
Example:
a bowl of hammered brass
Classified under:
Participle:
hammer (create by hammering)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb hammer
Context examples:
I went to my work as usual at ten o’clock, but the door was shut and locked, with a little square of cardboard hammered on to the middle of the panel with a tack.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He hammered loudly at the knocker and pulled at the bell, but without any success.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He then called down a little break-neck range of steps behind a door: Bring up that tea and bread-and-butter! which, after some time, during which I sat looking about me and thinking, and listening to the stitching in the room and the tune that was being hammered across the yard, appeared on a tray, and turned out to be for me.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Now isn't that stean at any rate—he hammered it with his stick as he spoke—a pack of lies? and won't it make Gabriel keckle when Geordie comes pantin' up the grees with the tombstean balanced on his hump, and asks it to be took as evidence!"
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
