What is "pounders"

Usage examples of "pounders".

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.

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.

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.

A menace of this kind, to have been properly met, should have been answered from the eighteen pounders of Fort Johnson.

The Carolina riflemen were not a little elated to discover that they could handle twenty-six pounders as efficiently as the smaller implements of death, to which their hands were better accustomed.

Not content merely to hold the line, they ran raids into the containments to break up the larger vag gangs and harass the smaller ones with gas, sonic pounders, and Fleisher guns.