Verb (pugilistic).—1. To beat; to punish (q.v.).
1887. T. E. Brown, The Doctor, p. 159. And bedad I did, and before
herself too, And hammered him well.
1891. Gunter, Miss Nobody, ch. ii. ‘Hammer him? What with?—a club?’
‘No, with my fists.’
Verb (pugilistic).—1. To beat; to punish (q.v.).
1887. T. E. Brown, The Doctor, p. 159. And bedad I did, and before
herself too, And hammered him well.
1891. Gunter, Miss Nobody, ch. ii. ‘Hammer him? What with?—a club?’
‘No, with my fists.’