Hammer
Hammer verb - To shape with a hammer.
Pump
Pump verb - To make short up-and-down movements.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Seeing as Stitch doesn't pump the action (he's holding the shotgun one-handed) and that model doesn't have an exposed hammer, what exactly is creating the cocking sound?
Source: Dramatic Gun Cock -
In the course of the movie he manages to kill or gruesomely injure people by means of a shower curtain rod, a pump-action shotgun he just snitched from a mook, a claw hammer, a knife, his boots and his bare hands.
Source: Film / Drive
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