Pounder
[paundә]
Definition
(noun.) (used only in combination) something weighing a given number of pounds; 'the fisherman caught a 10-pounder'; 'their linemen are all 300-pounders'.
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Definition
(n.) One who, or that which, pounds, as a stamp in an ore mill.
(n.) An instrument used for pounding; a pestle.
(n.) A person or thing, so called with reference to a certain number of pounds in value, weight, capacity, etc.; as, a cannon carrying a twelve-pound ball is called a twelve pounder.
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Examples
- You may be a fifty thousand pounder yet. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- His artillery, two batteries and two eighteen-pounder iron guns, drawn by oxen, were placed in position at intervals along the line. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Although intended to have only twenty guns, she was equipped, when finished, with thirty long 32-pounder guns and two Columbiad 100-pounders. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- I ha' getten brass, and we'll go buy the chap a sup o' milk an' a good four-pounder this very minute. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- We had no siege guns except six thirty-two pounders, and there were none at the West to draw from. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Although intended to have only twenty guns, she was equipped, when finished, with thirty long 32-pounder guns and two Columbiad 100-pounders. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- In still later times cannon became known by the weight and the balls they carried, 6-pounders, 12-pounders, etc. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It could be seen that the eighteen-pounders and the howitzers did a great deal of execution. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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