cricket vs hammer

cricket

noun
  • A wooden footstool. 

  • A relatively small area of a roof constructed to divert water from a horizontal intersection of the roof with a chimney, wall, expansion joint, or other projection. 

  • A signalling device used by soldiers in hostile territory to identify themselves to a friendly in low visibility conditions. 

  • A variant of the game of darts. See Cricket (darts). 

  • An aural warning sound consisting of a continuously-repeating chime, designed to be difficult for pilots to ignore. 

  • An insect in the order Orthoptera, especially family Gryllidae, that makes a chirping sound by rubbing its wing casings against combs on its hind legs. 

  • A game played outdoors with bats and a ball between two teams of eleven, popular in England and many Commonwealth countries. 

  • An act that is fair and sportsmanlike. 

  • In the form crickets: absolute silence; no communication. 

verb
  • To play the game of cricket. 

hammer

noun
  • In a piano or dulcimer, a piece of wood covered in felt that strikes the string. 

  • The malleus, a small bone of the middle ear. 

  • The accelerator pedal. 

  • A device made of a heavy steel ball attached to a length of wire, and used for throwing. 

  • A moving part of a firearm that strikes the firing pin to discharge a gun. 

  • The act of using a hammer to hit something. 

  • The last stone in an end. 

  • A frisbee throwing style in which the disc is held upside-down with a forehand grip and thrown above the head. 

  • Part of a clock that strikes upon a bell to indicate the hour. 

  • One who, or that which, smites or shatters. 

  • A tool with a heavy head and a handle used for pounding. 

verb
  • To declare (a person) a defaulter on the stock exchange. 

  • To ride very fast. 

  • To make high demands on (a system or service). 

  • To emphasize a point repeatedly. 

  • To beat down the price of (a stock), or depress (a market). 

  • To have hard sex with. 

  • To strike repeatedly with a hammer, some other implement, the fist, etc. 

  • To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating. 

  • To defeat (a person, a team) resoundingly 

  • To hit particularly hard. 

  • To strike internally, as if hit by a hammer. 

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