hammered, ppl. a.
(ˈhæməd)
[f. hammer v. + -ed1.]
Beaten out or shaped with a hammer.
| 1522 Bury Wills (Camden) 116 A ewer of pewter hamerd. 1593 Shakes. Lucr. 951 To spoile Antiquities of hammerd steele. 1671 Milton Samson 132 The hammered cuirass. a 1700 Dryden Disc. Epick Poetry (R.), I had certainly been reduced to pay the publick in hammered money, for want of milled. 1816 Keatinge Trav. (1817) II. 136 The quays..faced with hammered stone. 1863 P. Barry Dockyard Econ. Pref. 11 If rolled armour-plates were to be pronounced superior to hammered plates. |
b. Of grapes: Having innumerable marks as if they had been hammered into shape, a result of good cultivation.
| 1882 Garden 21 Jan. 50/3 The berries of the Vines with their roots outside were hammered, while those on the inside ones were not. |