maul, mallet, mace, club, gavel, sledge, peen, rammer, ram, flatter, nailer*, slug*, knocker*; see also stick.

Types of hammers include: claw, boilermaker's, bricklayer's, blacksmith's, machinist's, riveting, stone, spalling, prospecting, pneumatic, cross-peen, ball-peen, Exeter, joiner's, Canterbury claw, sealing, raising, welding, rawhide-laced, veneering, blocking, die, Nasmyth, set, double, dental, tilt hammer, steam hammer, sledgehammer, triphammer, jackhammer.

strike, whack, bang, bear down upon, pound, pound away at; see also beat 2, hit 1.