Hammer (disambiguation)

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A hammer is a type of tool. It may also be:

Hammer throw, the sport.
The Hammer (tribe) 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 also the shortened name used by 90s pop-rap artist M.C. Hammer later in his career.
Hammer is a common shorthand reference to Hammer Film Productions, a British film company famous for its line of horror films.
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 water hammer, a hydraulics phenomenon.

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.

People

Hammer, Armand (1898-1990), U.S. physician, entrepreneur, oil magnate, and art collector
Hammer, Barbara (born 1939), lesbian film maker
Hammer, Bernhard (1822-1907), Swiss president
Hammer, Charles Christian (1953-2004), U.S. classical guitarist
Hammer, Friedrich Julius (1810-1862), German poet
Hammer, Herb (born 1934), U.S politician
Hammer, Jan (born 1948), composer
Hammer, Lisa, film maker
Hammer, MC (born 1962), rap singer
Hammer, Moshe (born 1946), Canadian violinist
Hammer, Victor (1882-1967), artist
Hammer-Purgstall, Joseph Freiherr von (1774-1856), Austrian orientalist

Fictional characters

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