hammering

the 7–0 hammering by the league leaders.

The professor is hammering at an economic problem.

her heart was hammering in her breast.

the sound of a sort of confused hammering and shouting.

This machine has the function of hammering and galvanothermy mangle.

The blacksmith is hammering the red-hot metal.

He is hammering a tack into the wall to hang a picture.

he was hammering leather soles on to a pair of small boots.

Those people next door have been hammering on the walls again.

When I was young, I once stole some money from my mother. I got a real hammering when she found out.

There was a loud hammering of fists on the boards behind the electric fire.

Others are fastening bits of string and hammering tiny pegs into the ground.

Corrections and court officials are hammering out details.

He looked up, his heart hammering.

I heard a low hammering sound in the bedroom.

Cryptocurrencies also took a hammering, fuelled by speculation that regulators are preparing to clamp down on the digital-currency market.

The hammering stopped. Somebody inside the chimney piece said, " Shh! "

He was holding a little shoe and hammering tacks into it.

And his pulse was hammering like he was running a marathon.

But it was China's stockmarkets that took the biggest hammering. The CSI 300 index fell by 25%.