hammering

plural hammerings

1. countableuncountableA period of being beaten or hammered.

   Hearing a hammering on the door, I ran downstairs to open it.

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   Repeated hammerings by the smith thin the metal and make it tough.

2. countableuncountableA dented appearance on silverware, produced by successive blows of a hammer.
3. countableslanguncountableA heavy defeat.

   Villa spent most of the second period probing from wide areas and had a succession of corners but despite their profligacy they will be glad to overturn the 6-0 hammering they suffered at St James' Park in August following former boss Martin O'Neill's departure

   2011 April 10, Alistair Magowan, “Aston Villa 1 - 0 Newcastle”, in BBC Sport

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of hammer