Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name)
4. Tools and Equipment (hierarchy name)
5. equipment
6. [equipment by process]
7. striking tools

Narrower term/s

• backing hammers [NP]
• leatherworking hammers [NP][+]
  • magnetic hammers
  • turn-shoe hammers
• half hatchets
• stone working hammers [NP][+]
  • zaxes
  • axhammers
  • bushhammers
  • crandall hammers
  • face hammers
  • patent hammers
  • scabbling hammers
  • rock hammers
• metalworking hammers [NP][+]
  • file-cutting hammers
  • helve hammers
  • planishing hammers
  • plow hammers
  • [set hammers]
  • tilt hammers
• drop hammers[+]
  • board hammers
• peen hammers[+]
  • ball-peen hammers
  • cross-peen hammers
  • straight-peen hammers
• sledgehammers
• trip-hammers
• cabriolet hammers [NP]
• woodworking hammers [NP][+]
  • claw hammers
  • clench hammers
  • framing hammers
  • tack hammers
  • top maul hammers
  • veneer hammers
  • Warrington hammers
  • cooper's hammers
• joiner's hammers
• lathing hatchets [NP]
• power hammers[+]
  • jackhammers
• hammerstones [NP]
• war hammers [NP]
• meat tenderizers [NP]
• pile hammers
• leggets
• dental hammers [NP]
• slaughtering hammers [NP]

Anotations

Scope note:

Hand tools having a hard solid head, usually of metal or stone, set transversely on a handle. They are used for driving nails, beating, breaking, or other applications involving pounding or striking. The term may also refer to machines in which a heavy block of metal is used for the same purpose.