2. (colloquial).—Hammer-shaped: i.e., long and narrow in the head.
1865. Dickens, Our Mutual Friend, i., 9. Mr. Boffin’s equipage consisted of a long hammer-headed old horse, formerly used in the business … a driver being added in the person of a long hammer-headed young man.
Hammering, subs. (pugilistic and colloquial).—1. A beating; excessive punishment (q.v.).
2. (printers’).—Over-charging time-work (as ‘corrections’).
Hammering-trade, subs. (pugilistic).—Pugilism.
1819. Moore, Tom Crib, p. 49. The other, vast, gigantic, as if made, express, by Nature for the hammering trade.
Hammersmith. To go to Hammersmith, verb. phr. (common).—To get a sound drubbing.
Hampered, adj. (old: now recognised).—Let or hindered; perplexed; entangled. [From Old. Eng., hamper = a fetter: see quot. 1613]. [[255]]
1613. Browne, Britannia’s Pastorals, bk. i., s. 7. Shackles, shacklockes, hampers, gives and chaines.
1690. B. E., Cant. Crew, s.v.