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The conversion of pure intent into force, one beautifully blunt argument at a time.
means The act of striking something repeatedly with force, whether driving a nail home or, figuratively, attacking, defeating, or relentlessly pounding away at something.
from From Old English 'hamor,' a word shared across the Germanic family (German 'Hammer,' Old Norse 'hamarr'). Tantalizingly, 'hamarr' in Norse also meant 'rock' or 'crag' — a hint that the earliest hammers may have been stone, the tool named for the cliff it was chipped from. The '-ing' simply turns the tool into the deed: to wield the hammer, again and again.
- sweet spot
- Hit nail near hammer's tip for max power
- loud truth
- Repeated hammering can exceed 90 decibels easily
- thumb tax
- Beginners famously pay in bruised thumbs
- old craft
- Stone hammers predate metal by millions of years
- finish nails
- Brad pushers exist to avoid splitting wood
for instance
hammering the pavement — muhammad ali's footwork technique during his fights, particularly visible in the 1964 liston fight