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hammer
  1. 1 hammer
  2. 2 hopeless swimmer, person who can't swim, someone who sinks like a stone
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Mastered counts as known everywhere (frontier, map, extension) but never appears in the quiz again. New wipes the review history for this item.

· examples

  • Jane swims like a brick.

    sense 2 · hopeless swimmer

  • She shattered the mirror with a hammer.

    sense 1 · hammer

  • I can no more swim than a hammer can.

    sense 2 · hopeless swimmer

  • He cannot swim any more than a hammer can.

    sense 2 · hopeless swimmer

  • Bob can no more swim than a hammer can.

    sense 2 · hopeless swimmer

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