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hammerhead

  • noun

The portion of a hammer containing the metal striking face (also including the claw or peen if so equipped).

Other meanings

  1. Any organism with head shaped like that of a hammer

  2. Any shark of the family Sphyrnidae, which only includes the genera Sphyrna and Zygaena, with eyes set on projections from the sides of the head.

A kind of

  • head

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “hammerhead” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.