Word Meanings - HAMMERHEAD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A shark of the genus Sphyrna or Zygaena, having the eyes set on projections from the sides of the head, which gives it a hammer shape. The Sphyrna zygaena is found in the North Atlantic. Called also hammer fish, and balance fish.

• Shapely
  Well-formed; having a regular shape; comely; symmetrical.
• Caller
  One who calls.
• HAMMERBREAK
  An interrupter in which contact is broken by the movement of an automatically vibrating hammer between a contact piece and an electromagnet, or of a rapidly moving piece mechanically driven.
• Callisthenics
  See Calisthenic, Calisthenics.
• Foundation
  The act of founding, fixing, establishing, or beginning to erect.
• Hammer
  An instrument for driving nails, beating metals, and the like, consisting of a head, usually of steel or iron, fixed crosswise to a handle.
• Having
  of Have
• Northeaster
  A storm, strong wind, or gale, coming from the northeast.
• Northness
  A tendency in the end of a magnetic needle to point to the north.
• Shaper
  One who shapes; as, the shaper of one's fortunes.
• Callet
  A trull or prostitute; a scold or gossip.
• HAMMERDRESSED
  Having the surface roughly shaped or faced with the stonecutter's hammer; -- said of building stone.
• Callithump
  A somewhat riotous parade, accompanied with the blowing of tin horns, and other discordant noises; also, a burlesque serenade; a charivari.
• Foundationer
  One who derives support from the funds or foundation of a college or school.
• Hammered
  of Hammer
• Northeasterly
  Pertaining to the northeast; toward the northeast, or coming from the northeast.
• Northumbrian
  Of or pertaining to Northumberland in England.
• Atlantic
  Of or pertaining to Mt. Atlas in Libya, and hence applied to the ocean which lies between Europe and Africa on the east and America on the west; as, the Atlantic Ocean (called also the Atlantic); the Atlantic basin; the Atlantic telegraph.

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