1. plural of hammering; repeated or forceful blows with a hammer or hammer-like object
2. plural of hammering; the sound or action of hitting something repeatedly and forcefully
3. plural of hammering; severe criticism or defeat
Usage: informal

Examples

• The carpenter's hammerings echoed through the construction site all morning.
• We could hear the hammerings of the nails being driven into the wall.
• The team took a series of hammerings in the playoffs and didn't make it to the finals.
• The politician received harsh hammerings from the media over the scandal.
• The repeated hammerings of the woodpecker on the tree trunk woke us up.
• Despite the hammerings they received in the first half, the team came back to win.