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thumb|right|upright=1.3|A modern claw hammer suited to drive and remove nails thumb|Cartwheel mallets with heads of felt held between steel washers for use with [[timpani drums]] thumb|Detail of the head of a war hammer thumb|right|A geologist's hammer used to break up rocks, as seen in [[archaeology and prospecting]]
A hammer is a hand tool with a weighted head attached to a handle, primarily used to drive nails into or remove them from surfaces. Hammers have various specialized designs—such as claw hammers for carpentry, mallets for percussion instruments, war hammers for historical combat, and geological hammers for breaking rocks—making them useful across many different trades and activities.
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