Difference between Pounding and Hammering

What is the difference between Pounding and Hammering?

Pounding as a noun is an act in which something or someone is pounded while Hammering as a noun is a period of being beaten or hammered.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An act in which something or someone is pounded

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To confine in, or as in, a pound; to impound.

Example sentence: Marathons are hard because of the physical pain, the pounding on the muscles, joints, tendons.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To strike repeatedly with a hammer, some other implement, the fist, etc.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A period of being beaten or hammered.

We hope you now know whether to use Pounding or Hammering in your sentence.