The phrase "a thing hammered" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an object that has been struck or shaped by a hammer, often in a metaphorical sense to indicate something that has been forcefully altered or affected.
Example: "After the storm, the old shed looked like a thing hammered, with its roof caved in and walls battered."
Alternatives: "an object struck" or "a piece pounded".
The first thing hammered home while researching this issue was that Australia is exceedingly secretive about its prisons and detention centres.
It's one thing hammering teams at home, another doing it away.
In disclosing the as-structure of a thing, the hammer as a hammer, interpretation discloses its meaning.
Got a thing for hammering and/or aluminum?
The whole thing is hammered up with a properly artistic sense of haphazard asymmetry, a structure so untouched by safety considerations that it makes your feet tingle as you clamber up on slippery birch branches and rustic, homemade ladders.
And the show is overseen by Alan Ball, who with Six Feet Under and True Blood has proved he knows a thing or two about hammering an unusual concept into great television.
If such standards traditionally derive from the essence that a particular thing instantiates this hammer is a good one if it instantiates what a hammer is supposed to be and if there is nothing that a human being is, by its essence, supposed to be, can the meaning of existence at all be thought?
It was a goofy-looking thing — a hammer-fisted apatosaurus with a potbelly, a long neck, and floppy dog ears.
But Michael Keegan-Dolan, who has a rare gift for transforming old ballets into new, has taken the 19th-century story and hammered it into a thing of wonder.
Some volunteers did innocuous things: (1) hammering an imaginary nail on a block of wood, (2) using a rock to smash a (rubber) nut, (3) using a spray bottle to mist an imaginary plant, (4) using a rubber knife to cut a (cardboard) loaf of bread, and (5) smacking a hand broom against a table to shake out dust.
