Rammer vs. Hammer — What's the Difference?

A male sheep.

A hammer is a tool, most often a hand tool, consisting of a weighted "head" fixed to a long handle that is swung to deliver an impact to a small area of an object. This can be, for example, to drive nails into wood, to shape metal (as with a forge), or to crush rock.

A battering ram.

A hand tool consisting of a handle with a head of metal or other heavy rigid material that is attached at a right angle, used for striking or pounding.

The weight that drops in a pile driver or steam hammer.

The part of a gunlock that hits the primer or firing pin or explodes the percussion cap and causes the gun to fire.

The plunger or piston of a force pump or hydraulic press.

(Music) One of the padded wooden pieces of a piano that strikes the strings.

A hydraulic ram.

A part of an apparatus that strikes a gong or bell, as in a clock.

A projection on the prow of a warship, used to batter or cut into enemy vessels.

(Anatomy) See malleus.

A ship having such a projection.

(Sports) A metal ball weighing 16 pounds (7.2 kilograms) and having a long wire or wooden handle by which it is thrown for distance in track-and-field competition.

Ram See Aries.

A small mallet used by auctioneers.

To strike or drive against with a heavy impact; butt

To hit, especially repeatedly, with a hammer; pound.

To force or press into place.

To strike forcefully and repeatedly

To cram; stuff

To assault with military force

To force passage or acceptance of

To beat into a shape with a hammer or similar tool

A device used to ram; a ramrod.

To accomplish or produce with difficulty or effort. Often used with out

One who, or that, rams.

To put together, fasten, or seal, particularly with nails, by hammering.

One who, or that which, rams or drives.

To force upon (someone) by constant repetition

A tool for driving something with force

To cause harm, loss, or difficulty to (someone), especially repeatedly

To defeat soundly

To attack verbally

To deal repeated blows with or as if with a hammer; pummel

To undergo beating in the manner of a hammer

(Informal) To keep at something continuously. Often used with away

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

The act of using a hammer to hit something.

(firearms) A moving part of a firearm that strikes the firing pin to discharge a gun.

(anatomy) The malleus, a small bone of the middle ear.

(music) In a piano or dulcimer, a piece of wood covered in felt that strikes the string.

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

(curling) The last stone in an end.

(frisbee) 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.

(journalism) hammer headline

(motor racing) The accelerator pedal.

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

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

(figuratively) To emphasize a point repeatedly.

To hit particularly hard.

To ride very fast.

(intransitive) To strike internally, as if hit by a hammer.

To defeat (a person, a team) resoundingly

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

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

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

To have hard sex with.

An instrument for driving nails, beating metals, and the like, consisting of a head, usually of steel or iron, fixed crosswise to a handle.

Something which in form or action resembles the common hammer

A spherical weight attached to a flexible handle and hurled from a mark or ring. The weight of head and handle is usually not less than 16 pounds.

To beat with a hammer; to beat with heavy blows; as, to hammer iron.

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

To form in the mind; to shape by hard intellectual labor; - usually with out.

To be busy forming anything; to labor hard as if shaping something with a hammer.

To strike repeated blows, literally or figuratively.

The part of a gunlock that strikes the percussion cap when the trigger is pulled

A hand tool with a heavy rigid head and a handle; used to deliver an impulsive force by striking

An athletic competition in which a heavy metal ball that is attached to a flexible wire is hurled as far as possible

The ossicle attached to the eardrum

A heavy metal sphere attached to a flexible wire; used in the hammer throw

A striker that is covered in felt and that causes the piano strings to vibrate

A power tool for drilling rocks

The act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows);

Beat with or as if with a hammer;

Create by hammering;