Defn: To make a blow with, or as with, a hammer. [Obs.] Spenser.
MARTEL DE FER
Mar`tel` de fer". Etym: [OF., hammer of iron.]
Defn: A weapon resembling a hammer, often having one side of the head pointed; — used by horsemen in the Middle Ages to break armor. Fairholt.
MARTELINE
Mar"te*line, n. Etym: [F.]
Defn: A small hammer used by marble workers and sculptors.
MARTELLO TOWER Mar*tel"lo tow`er. Etym: [It. martello hammer. The name was orig. given to towers erected on the coasts of Sicily and Sardinia for protection against the pirates in the time of Charles the Fifth, which prob. orig. contained an alarm bell to be struck with a hammer. See Martel.] (Fort.)
Defn: A building of masonry, generally circular, usually erected on the seacoast, with a gun on the summit mounted on a traversing platform, so as to be fired in any direction.
Note: The English borrowed the name of the tower from Corsica in 1794.
MARTEN
Mar"ten, n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: A bird. See Martin.