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Answer for the clue "Tool — trounce ", 6 letters:
hammer

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Word definitions for hammer in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A tool with a heavy head and a handle used for pounding. 2 A moving part of a firearm that strikes the firing pin to discharge a gun. 3 (context anatomy English) The malleus, a small bone of the middle ear. 4 (context music English) In a piano or dulcimer, ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hammer \Ham"mer\, v. i. To be busy forming anything; to labor hard as if shaping something with a hammer. Whereon this month I have been hammering. --Shak. To strike repeated blows, literally or figuratively. Blood and revenge are hammering in my head. ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the part of a gunlock that strikes the percussion cap when the trigger is pulled [syn: cock ] 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 ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English hamor "hammer," from Proto-Germanic *hamaraz (cognates: Old Saxon hamur , Middle Dutch, Dutch hamer , Old High German hamar , German Hammer ). The Old Norse cognate hamarr meant "stone, crag" (it's common in English place names), and suggests ...

Usage examples of hammer.

Among the molluscs and zoophytes, I found in the meshes of the net several species of alcyonarians, echini, hammers, spurs, dials, cerites, and hyalleae.

Heart hammering in his throat, Alec turned Patch and galloped back to find Seregil.

Anyone who wanted to be the best at javelin, hammer, shot or discus needed the kind of muscle that anabolic steroids could provide a lot more easily than training.

Using it as a club, he began hammering disrespectfully on the nearest Anointed, a male teenager with muscular shoulders and a terrible bone-deep wound across the entire front of his body, which had probably killed him.

Hammered silver, an arched neck, great dark eyes that looked Aris full in the face.

At least some of that many normal arquebus would have had their priming soaked during the crossing, but all of these weapons fired successfully into the mass of pirates hammering at the shield wall.

They bore a variety of weapons, including axes and hammers as well as an occasional crossbow or spear, and they shouted their hatred and anger at the attackers who had emerged from the brush with such shocking and brutal speed.

Knuckles dinged and bleeding, his clothes white, nose filled with plaster dust, he bashed a hole big enough, dropped the hammer and wriggled through, tearing his cape in the process.

Big Bob hammered and beat and bashed, swearing huge and terrible oaths, pulling out tufts of synthetic hair and bruising synthetic skin.

These came armed with ferules and birchen rods, being a race of schoolmasters, who first discovered the marvelous sympathy between the seat of honor and the seat of intellect,--and that the shortest way to get knowledge into the head was to hammer it into the bottom.

At the first opportunity we meant to make a quiet trip up there with hammer and drill to obtain specimens for assay, but for one reason or another we did not get round to it until August, when we planned the blackberrying excursion.

The sensation of being blindfolded and treated like this had her heart hammering but as well as that she found now that she was acutely aware of how vulnerable she was sexually.

Ah, if I could only hammer that into the brains of every rancher of the San Joaquin, yes, and of every owner of every bonanza farm in Dakota and Minnesota.

Even in the sudden shock of Booc oNz: Will Hem Lee 8z finding Foxy there, Will Henry noticed that the hammer of the rifle was cocked.

The old and new apartments soon boomed to the sounds of saws and hammers, and the air was laden with the scent of glue and varnish and fresh paint.