Crossword clues for pounder
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pounder \Pound"er\, n.
One who, or that which, pounds, as a stamp in an ore mill.
An instrument used for pounding; a pestle.
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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.
Note: Before the English reform act of 1867, one who was an elector by virtue of paying ten pounds rent was called a ten pounder.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. A vessel in which something is pounded, or something used in pounding Etymology 2
n. 1 (context only in combination English) A gun capable of firing a specified weight of shot 2 (context only in combination English) Something that weighs a specified number of pounds
WordNet
n. (used only in combination) something weighing a given number of pounds; "the fisherman caught a 10-pounder"; "their linemen are all 300-pounders"
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 [syn: pestle, muller]
Wikipedia
Pounder may refer to:
- Pounder (surname), a surname
- Pounder (EP), 2015 Nuclear Assault album
- Post pounder, a tool used for driving posts into the ground
- Rice pounder, an agricultural tool
- Caliber#Pounds as a measure of cannon bore, a method of rating artillery pieces
- Pounder beer can, a 16 oz can of beer
Pounder is a surname, and may refer to:
- C. C. H. Pounder (born 1952), Guyanese-American actor
- Cheryl Pounder (born 1976), Canadian ice hockey player
- Rafton Pounder (1933-1991), Irish politician
- Roy Pounder (21st century), British medical doctor
- Tony Pounder (born 1966), English footballer
Pounder is an EP from Nuclear Assault, released on June 1, 2015. It is the band's first EP since 1988's Good Times, Bad Times, and their first studio recording since 2005's Third World Genocide.
Usage examples of "pounder".
Men were ordered to the ramparts where they hammered iron spikes into the touch-holes of the huge thirty-six pounder guns.
A twenty-four pounder hulled the Sophie low under the counter, and at once the pumps began gushing sea as well as fresh water.
The British gunners had succeeded in bringing an enemy five pounder cannon to the edge of the ravine.
Highlanders who jostled in the narrow roadway that was still half blocked by the six pounder cannon.
He woke to the crowing of cockerels and the bang of a twelve pounder gun, a reminder that the world and the war went on.
Foote died in eighty-six, the farm went to his widow, Dorothy Jessica Harrelson Oxidine Pounder Foote.
Sonny Pounder had spoken of a Korean dealer, someone with an inside line.
Harvey Pearce probably got the macaw the same way he scored the bird Pounder mentioned.
General Cartaux sent two hundred men and a fourpounder of his division by the Rue St.
June 9, 1863 MAJOR-GENERAL HOOKER: I am told there are 50 incendiary shells here at the arsenal made to fit the 100 pounder Parrott gun now with you.
The twenty-four pounders, like the six field guns that should have been delivered to Baltimore, were likewise spiked, turned off their carriages, and jettisoned into the flooded ditch.
He did not have enough men to raise one of the vast thirty-six pounders from the channel, nor could he spare the powder needed to fire one of the huge guns.
Some of the French, seeing their way blocked, turned to flood into the semicircular bastion where the thirty-six pounders had stood.
He flinched as one of the eighteen pounders roared and billowed smoke all about the battery, then he strode into the acrid cloud, shouting for Major Plummer, the gunner officer.
The four field guns were mere four pounders while the fifth was a five-inch howitzer, and not one of the pieces fired a ball of real weight.