Alright I'll argue with this. If you pulled a Leucippus and thinned a hammer's sides down to nothing, you wouldn't be left with anything but a worthless hammer with a small face and weak neck. You could argue that prehistoric maces and axes were largely interchangeable because there's only so many ways grug can put a sharp rock through a club, but hammers and swords diverged by the time we came up with separate labels for them. The only fringe case I can recall of more recent overlap is that mordhau meme, but that's going against the spirit of both the law and the sword. This isn't just taxonomical either, like hamburgers not being true sandwiches, there's a difference in intent between them. Hammers in every iteration are about generating and transferring momentum, whereas axes and swords are about some form of cleaving with force just helping get to that point. <|endoftext|> 