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Synonyms for hammer away

Grammar : Verb
Spell : ham-er
Phonetic Transcription : ˈhæm ər

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Définition of hammer away

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 work hard at
Example sentences :
  • There he laid him on the anvil and began to hammer away on him.
  • Extract from : « Italian Popular Tales » by Thomas Frederick Crane
  • Hammer away; only you might let us have our dinner in peace.
  • Extract from : « The Young Castellan » by George Manville Fenn
  • "We'll just go to hell," said Atkinson, snatching his hammer away.
  • Extract from : « Planet of Dreams » by James McKimmey
  • This cruel beast could pounce on him at will and hammer away his life.
  • Extract from : « The Voice of the Pack » by Edison Marshall
  • I hammer away, but I don't in the least know where to send this.
  • Extract from : « The Letters of Henry James (volume I) » by Henry James
  • Joel hammer away at plough-handle, tinkerin' just like heself.
  • Extract from : « Wyandotte » by James Fenimore Cooper
  • Hammer away yourself at such a pebble, and see what a mess you make of it.
  • Extract from : « Anthropology » by Robert Marett
  • They intend to keep at that distance, and hammer away at us.
  • Extract from : « With Clive in India » by G. A. Henty
  • He was too shrewd to stand up with any pupil who might get the best of him and permit that pupil to hammer away at him.
  • Extract from : « Frank Merriwell at Yale » by Burt L. Standish
  • With scarce a leg or wheel for man and horse, gun or caisson, to stand on, it continued to hammer away at the crushing fire above.
  • Extract from : « Destruction and Reconstruction: » by Richard Taylor
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