Hammer (disambiguation)
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- Hammer (firearm), a part of modern firearms which strikes a firing pin in order to fire a cartridge.
- Hammer throw, the sport.
- The Hammer people are a tribe in Ethiopia.
- A hammer is a small padded stick or cane used in pairs to play the hammered dulcimer. Dulcimer hammers are made of a variety of materials, most frequently wood with a hammer head covered with a strip of leather or felt.
- A hammer is the last rock in the sport of curling
- Hammers are felt-padded objects within a piano and similar instruments, which, when triggered by depressing a key, strike the instrument's strings.
- Hammer is an informal term for the malleus bone of the ear.
- Hammer is a common shorthand reference to Hammer Film Productions, a British film company famous for its line of horror films.
- Hammer is also the shortened name used by 90s pop-rap artist M.C. Hammer later in his career.
- The Hammer is a Novelty and fad dance, popularized by MC Hammer.
- The Hammer is a nickname for baseball legend, Hank Aaron.
- The Hammer is a nickname for professional wrestler Greg Valentine.
- The Hammer is a nickname for Tom DeLay, a United States Representative from Texas.
- The Hammer is a nickname for a starting hand of 7-2 in Texas Hold'em.
- The Hammers is a nickname for the FA Premier League football club West Ham United F.C..
- A Hammer is slang used by skateboarders to designate that a trick involved an especially large gap, big drop, or high stair count. Invented by Jim Greco.
- A Hammer is slang used by men to describe a female super hottie as in "Is Sharapova a Hammer or what!?!"
- A water hammer, a hydraulics phenomenon.
- The Hammer is a 1707 violin by Antonio Stradivari.
[edit] Computers
- Hammer is the short form name for the Valve Hammer Editor (VHE), the official map editing program for the Half-Life series of computer games.
- Hammer was the codename used for one iteration of the Glaze3D series of vaporware graphics cards.
- Hammer was also the code name for the first AMD 64-bit processor architecture.
[edit] People
- A. J. Hammer
- Anthony Hammer
- Armand Hammer (1898-1990), U.S. physician, entrepreneur, oil magnate, and art collector
- Barbara Hammer (born 1939), lesbian film maker
- Beatrice Hammer
- Bernhard Hammer (1822-1907), Swiss president
- Charles Christian Hammer (1953-2004), U.S. classical guitarist
- Chuck Hammer
- Doc Hammer
- Friedrich Julius Hammer (1810-1862), German poet
- Heathcote Howard Hammer
- Herb Hammer (born 1934), U.S politician
- Jack Hammer (porn star)
- Jaime Hammer
- Jan Hammer (born 1948), composer
- Jens Hammer
- John Hammer
- Justin Hammer, fictional comicbook villain
- Justine Hammer, fictional comicbook villain
- Kristian Hammer
- Lisa Hammer, film maker
- MC Hammer (born 1962), rap singer
- Marion P. Hammer
- Michael Hammer
- Mike Hammer, fictional character
- Moshe Hammer (born 1946), Canadian violinist
- Øyvind Hammer
- Victor Hammer] (1882-1967), artist
- Will Hammer (1887-1957), English entrepreneur, jeweller, comedian and film studio owner
- Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall (1774-1856), Austrian orientalist
[edit] Places
- Hammer, West Sussex, England
[edit] Fictional characters
- Foe Hammer
- Hans Von Hammer, known as the Enemy Ace, a German pilot during the World Wars in the DC Comics universe who was based heavily upon the real life Red Baron
- Mike Hammer, a private detective in a series of books (and later films based on the books) by the late Mickey Spillane
- The Hebrew Hammer, from a movie of the same name originally appearing on Comedy Central
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