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Definition of Pounder

1. Noun. (used only in combination) something weighing a given number of pounds. "Their linemen are all 300-pounders"

2. Noun. A heavy tool of stone or iron (usually with a flat base and a handle) that is used to grind and mix material (as grain or drugs or pigments) against a slab of stone.

Definition of Pounder

1. n. One who, or that which, pounds, as a stamp in an ore mill.

Definition of Pounder

1. Noun. A vessel in which something is pounded, or something used in pounding ¹

2. Noun. (context: only in combination) A gun capable of firing a specified weight of shot ¹

3. Noun. (context: only in combination) Something that weighs a specified number of pounds ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pounder

1. one that pounds [n -S] - See also: pounds

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pounder

pound shop pound sign pound signs pound sterling pound the pavement pound the table pound up poundage poundages poundal

poundals poundcake poundcakes pounded pounder (current term) pounders pounding poundingly poundings poundkeeper

poundkeepers poundmaster poundmasters pounds pounds per square inch poupe pouped poupes poupeton

Literary usage of Pounder

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1868)
"We fired during the action one hundred and twenty shells from the eleven-inch guns, and ninety two from the one-hundred- pounder rifles. ..."

2. Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of by Chetham Society (1859)
"(Elsewhere we have the large culverin 20 pounder, ordinary culverin 17, smallest, called by Crusoe the great culverin, 15j pounder; the large demi-culverin ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"9-pounder Field Onn Carriage (elevation). without carriages from which to fire ... 38, 39 show the details of the 9-pounder rifled muzzle-loader carriage. ..."

4. A Military Dictionary and Gazetteer: Comprising Ancient and Modern Military by Thomas Wilhelm (1881)
"For siege-guns a 24- and 12- pounder rifled weighing 4409 and 1940 pounds, ... There is also a 4-pounder rifled muzzle-loading mountain piece weighing 220.5 ..."

5. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, with Documents, Narratives by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1862)
"... three nine- inch shell guns and one one-hundred-pounder rifled gun ; Delaware, ... Het- zel, one nine-inch shell gun and one eighty- pounder rifled gun ..."

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