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  • noun Plural form of hammering.

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Examples

  • The cage-fighter, who is married to Katie Price, said that repeated 'hammerings' have left him "ruggedly handsome rather than pretty".

    All - Digital Spy - Entertainment and Media News 2010

  • In the late afternoon, after prodigious hammerings and clangings in a score of places, all noises ceased.

    CHAPTER XLIX 2010

  • The 21-year-old's assured display behind a brutally effective pack helped hand out the mother of all hammerings to Neil Back's Leeds.

    Billy Twelvetrees revels in new role as Leicester hammer Leeds Ian Malin at Welford Road 2010

  • Whether it was the ill-fated and embarrassing “My Act Isn't Together, And I'm Taking It Off The Road” debacle of his campaign “suspension” during the pivotal early days of the financial meltdown, or his damaging Ayers dog-whistling for weeks, or his craven pushing of the Ashley Todd “Chifferobe-gate ™” hoax, it has been a cornucopia of rake-steps and thumb-hammerings so abundant that the late night talk shows would have to start at 9 p.m.

    Archive 2008-10-01 2008

  • Whether it was the ill-fated and embarrassing “My Act Isn't Together, And I'm Taking It Off The Road” debacle of his campaign “suspension” during the pivotal early days of the financial meltdown, or his damaging Ayers dog-whistling for weeks, or his craven pushing of the Ashley Todd “Chifferobe-gate ™” hoax, it has been a cornucopia of rake-steps and thumb-hammerings so abundant that the late night talk shows would have to start at 9 p.m.

    A Human Don Rickles Punchline 2008

  • It's far from over, but in comparison to the recent daily hammerings he's taken in the media he seems to have earned something approaching a respite since winning the vote on 42 days, mainly thanks to the diversion offered by David Davis, the aftermath of the Irish referendum, the Bush visit and, quite possibly, Brown fatigue.

    Archive 2008-06-01 2008

  • If Roberto Mancini is going to get sacked, wouldn't it be better to get it over with quickly and humanely via a few 7-0 hammerings than let the thing drag painfully on till Christmas with a string of dull draws and the occasional 1-0 win?

    Season of the un-supporters' club Harry Pearson 2010

  • If Roberto Mancini is going to get sacked, wouldn't it be better to get it over with quickly and humanely via a few 7-0 hammerings than let the thing drag painfully on?

    Season of the un-supporters' club Harry Pearson 2010

  • It's far from over, but in comparison to the recent daily hammerings he's taken in the media he seems to have earned something approaching a respite since winning the vote on 42 days, mainly thanks to the diversion offered by David Davis, the aftermath of the Irish referendum, the Bush visit and, quite possibly, Brown fatigue.

    A Brown anniversary 2008

  • These days after day hammerings of the international zone with rocket fire.

    CNN Transcript Mar 28, 2008 2008

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