(transitive) To lame or disable by cutting the tendons of the ham or knee; to hough. / (transitive, figuratively) To cripple; to incapacitate; to disable.

A tool with a heavy head and a handle used for pounding. / The act of using a hammer to hit something. / A moving part of a firearm that strikes the firing pin to discharge a gun.

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.

A small village or a group of houses. / (Britain) A village that does not have its own church. / Any of the fish of the genus Hypoplectrus in the family Serranidae.

The second-largest city in, and a state of, Germany. / A city, the county seat of Ashley County, Arkansas. / A community in the town of Lyme, New London County, Connecticut.

A Hamburg chicken. / A variety of black grape.

A hot sandwich consisting of a patty of cooked ground beef or a meat substitute, in a sliced bun, sometimes also containing salad vegetables, condiments, or both. / The patty used in such a sandwich.

To badly injure or damage.

A porter in Turkey and nearby countries.

A depiction of a sickle crossed with a hammer, used as a symbol of communism and the Soviet Union. / (metonymically) Socialism or communism itself.