Definition of Hammered

1. Adjective. Shaped or worked with a hammer and often showing hammer marks. "A bowl of hammered brass"

Participles: Hammer

Definition of Hammered

1. Adjective. (slang) drunk ¹

2. Verb. (simple past of hammer) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hammered

1. hammer [v] - See also: hammer

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hammered

hammer-ons
hammer and sickle
hammer and tongs
hammer dulcimer
hammer finger
hammer headline
hammer home
hammer in
hammer nose
hammer out
hammer throw
hammerable
hammercloth
hammercloths
hammered (current term)
hammered dulcimer
hammerer
hammerers
hammerhead
hammerhead ribozyme
hammerhead shark
hammerhead sharks
hammerheads
hammering
hammerings
hammerkop
hammerkops
hammerless
hammerlike

Literary usage of Hammered

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1886)
"It is then reheated and hammered, so as to reduce its thickness, ... A hole is then swedged through its center, and it is then hammered on the horn or beak ..."

2. Dyke's Automobile and Gasoline Engine Encyclopedia by Andrew Lee Dyke (1920)
"A very popular step-cut concentric ring 1< the "hammered ring", made by the American hammered Ring To , Baltimore, Mfi. This ring looks very much like iß ..."

3. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1898)
"When all was quite firm, the twisted ends were cut short and hammered smooth, while the periosteal flaps were sutured together over the line of fracture Fig ..."

4. Recreations in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy by Jacques Ozanam, Jean Etienne Montucla (1814)
"Pure gold of 24 carats, melted but not hammered The same hammered . ... Gold of the French trinket standard, 20 carats fine, not hammered . ..."

5. The Manufacture and Properties of Iron and Steel by Harry Huse Campbell (1907)
"was hammered to 4 inches square in one heat. E was hammered to 3 inches ... H was hammered to 5 inches square, then reheated and hammered to 4 inches. ..."

6. The Manufacture and Properties of Iron and Steel by Harry Huse Campbell (1907)
"C was hammered to 5 inches square in one heat. D was hammered to 4 inches ... J was hammered to 4 inches square, then reheated and hammered to 3 inches. ..."

7. The Manufacture and Properties of Iron and Steel by Harry Huse Campbell (1907)
"C was hammered to 5 inches square in one heat. D was hammered to 4 inches square in one heat. E was hammered to 3 inches square in one heat. ..."

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