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hammer

Throwing event in track and field athletics. The hammer is a spherical weight attached to a wire with a handle. The competitors grip the handle with both hands, spin the hammer in a circular motion about them several times, and throw it as far as they can. The senior men's hammer weighs 7.26 kg/16 lb and may originally have been a blacksmith's hammer. Women and junior men throw lighter weights.

The first ever Olympic women's hammer event took place at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia.



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It makes me dreadfully nervous to see that big hammer pounding so near my head.
Ozma of Oz by Baum, L. Frank View in context
Everyone turned round and peered at the pathway which wound across the plain below, along which was indeed walking, at his own huge stride and with a hammer on his shoulder, Simeon the smith.
The Innocence Of Father Brown by Chesterton, Gilbert K. View in context
We would find the hammer for him, and then he would have lost sight of the mark he had made on the wall, where the nail was to go in, and each of us had to get up on the chair, beside him, and see if we could find it; and we would each discover it in a different place, and he would call us all fools, one after another, and tell us to get down.
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