Pounding
['paʊndɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pound
(n.) The act of beating, bruising, or breaking up; a beating.
(n.) A pounded or pulverized substance.
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Examples
- The nuts they cracked between their powerful jaws, or, if too hard, broke by pounding between stones. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Gould was pounding the Western Union on the Stock Exchange, disturbing its railroad contracts, and, being advised by his lawyers that this patent was of great value, bought it. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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