Pounder

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  • n. A vessel in which something is pounded, or something used in pounding
  • n. A gun capable of firing a specified weight of shot
  • n. Something that weighs a specified number of pounds
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • 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..
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A thing or person weighing a specified number of pounds: only in composition, with a numeral; specifically, of artillery, a gun that discharges a missile of the specified weight: thus, a 64-pounder is a cannon firing balls weighing each 64 pounds.
  • n. A person who promises or pays a specified number of pounds sterling.
  • n. Before the passing of the Reform Act of 1867 the term ten-pounders was applied in Great Britain to those paying the lowest amount of yearly rent (£10) entitling them to vote in parliamentary elections in cities and boroughs.
  • n. A kind of pear, supposed to weigh a pound.
  • n. A pound-keeper.
  • n. One who pounds.
  • n. An instrument for pounding.
  • n. A pestle.
  • n. The beater of a fulling-mill.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. (used only in combination) something weighing a given number of pounds
  • n. 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
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    force unit    tool   
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    pestle   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    bounder    cofounder    flounder    founder    grounder    rounder    sounder   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    cm    150-mm    muzzle-loading    75-mm    5-inch    11    eight-inch    Gatha    twelve-pound    howitzer