Antonyms for hammer out

Grammar : Verb

Spell : ham-er

Phonetic Transcription : ˈhæm ər

Definition of hammer out

Origin : Old English hamor "hammer," from Proto-Germanic *hamaraz (cf. Old Saxon hamur, Middle Dutch, Dutch hamer, Old High German hamar, German Hammer. The Old Norse cognate hamarr meant "stone, crag" (it's common in English place names), and suggests an original sense of "tool with a stone head," from PIE *akmen "stone, sharp stone used as a tool" (cf. Old Church Slavonic kamy, Russian kameni "stone"), from root *ak- "sharp" (see acme). Hammer and sickle as an emblem of Soviet communism attested from 1921, symbolizing industrial and agricultural labor.

verb bring to a conclusion

Example sentences :

"Do not let the hammer out of your hands this time, bride of Thrym," he shouted.
Extract from : « The Children of Odin » by Padraic Colum

Their weapons were of stones, but they had some kind of metal which they could hammer out.
Extract from : « Buchanan's Journal of Man, January 1888 » by Various

Oh, you've still got your hammer out for New York, have you?
Extract from : « Strictly Business » by O. Henry

John sat up at night, but only managed to hammer out two lines.
Extract from : « The Son of a Servant » by August Strindberg

He pulled his hammer out of one of the "croker sacks," inserted the claw and pulled.
Extract from : « Mountain » by Clement Wood

If these versicles won't do, I will hammer out some more endecasyllables.
Extract from : « Life of Lord Byron, Vol. II » by Thomas Moore

Here, take a pen in your hand and sit down, and I'll see if I can hammer out something.
Extract from : « The Library Magazine of Select Foreign Literature » by Various

From a half dollar they will hammer out or mold a bangle and cover it with chasing very deftly cut.
Extract from : « Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska » by Charles Warren Stoddard

When you are here I will hammer out the Walkre to you, and I hope it will force its way from ear to heart.
Extract from : « Wagner as I Knew Him » by Ferdinand Christian Wilhelm Praeger

Eustace Bright went back to the study, and again endeavored to hammer out some verses, but fell asleep between two of the rhymes.
Extract from : « The Three Golden Apples » by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Synonyms for hammer out

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