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Definition of Hammerers
1. hammerer [n] - See also: hammerer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hammerers
Literary usage of Hammerers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The College and the Church: The "How I was Educated" Papers and by Edward Everett Halle (1887)
"But let me frankly confess that we have had trouble with our hammerers of
orthodoxy—a class ... I do not forget that there were hammerers on the other side; ..."
2. The Canadian Monthly and National Review by William White (1878)
"See, here is his speech at the dinner last nigh* of the Hammerers' Company ...
This morning he was gratified in finding his remarks at the Hammerers' Dinner ..."
3. The Financial Philosophy: Or, The Principles of the Science of Money ; with by George Wilson (1895)
"... melt and hammer just as we perhaps have smelt and smite from the same word.
The smiths were first hammerers and later were hammerers and smelters both. ..."
4. New and altered forms of disease by Hobart Amory Hare (1886)
"Briefly stated, the disease is in no way different in its causes and effects from
the 'well-known Scriveners' and Hammerers' Cramp and Palsy of older origin ..."
5. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens (1908)
"now among hovels, now among lords and ladies and gentlefolks, now among labourers
and hammerers and ballast- heavers, until at last, after a long interval ..."
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