hammerer
(ˈhæmərə(r))
[f. as prec. + -er1.]
1. One who hammers or wields a hammer; often, one who plies the geologist's hammer, a geologist. Also, as a specific occupation.
| 1611 Cotgr., Marteleur, a hammerer; one that worketh with a hammer. 1631 R. H. Arraignm. Whole Creature xii. §5. 146 All the late Hammerers of Papists. 1861 Wilson & Geikie Mem. E. Forbes xii. 378 The geologists..half-a-dozen stalwart hammerers. 1890 Nature 4 Sept., A source of regret to the whole brotherhood of hammerers. 1909 Westm. Gaz. 8 Feb. 3/1 The man was a ‘hammerer’—i.e., a driver of rivets into boilers, &c. 1921 Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) §278 Hammerer,..flattens saw blades,..by..striking any curved part with hammer. |
2. ‘The three-wattled bell-bird of Costa Rica, Chasmorhynchus tricarunculatus’ (Cent. Dict.).