To strike with a cudgel.
To exercise (one's wits or brains).
Anything that can be used as a threat to force one's will on another.
A short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon.
To beat into shape with a hammer.
Possessing or resembling a malleus, or another structure shaped like a hammer.
Having a surface with shallow round indentations, resembling copper that has been hammered.