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a hammer used for beating, breaking, &c.,
a workman's hammer
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  • Hamer

    malleus,

      Wrt. Voc. i. 287, 1.
  • Slecg, hamur, ii. 57, 78.
  • Beátendes hameres stíþnes

    tundentis mallei durities,

      An. Ox. 481.
  • Mín (

    a key's

    ) heáfod is homere geþuren, sworfen feóle,
      Rä. 87, 1.
  • Þeáh ðǽra manna ǽghwylc hæfde ǽnne hamor on handa, and þeáh man . . . mid þám hameron beóte on þæt ísene þell . . . ne áwacode hé nǽfre for eallum þissum, tó ðám wérig hé wǽre,

      Wlfst. 147, 3-8.
  • Hameras sleánde

    mallei percutientes,

      Scint. 171, 14.
  • Wé þæt deór uneáþe mid ísernum hamerum and slecgum (

    malleis

    ) ofbeóton,
      Nar. 21, 5.
a hammer used by the master of the rowers to give signals for the stroke; portisculus, porticulus
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  • Hamere portisculo (crepante naucleri

    portisculo,

      Ald. 3, 3), Wrt. Voc. ii. 75, 12.
  • Hamure

    porticulo,

      An. Ox. 7, 13 : 8, 7.
  • Hamele,

      1, 33 : 3, 22.
    (All these are glosses to the same passage.)
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v. clod-hamer, dúþ-hamer, dýþ-hamer, hand-hamer.
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