hammer (the literal sense also occurs)
1.
to devise,
plan
2H6 I. ii. 47
“h-ing treachery”
; also intr. to deliberate earnestly “upon” or “of”
Gent. I. iii. 18
“that Whereon this month
I have been h-ing,”
Wint. II. ii. 49
“hammer'd of this
design.”
2.
(of an idea) to be
persistently in the mind
Tit. II. iii. 39
“Blood and revenge are
h-ing in my head.”