What is "poundings"

Usage examples of "poundings".

The hushes between the surges of the surf were filled with the rhythmic poundings of their blood, louder than the steady sigh-crash of the sea itself.

The hills seemed to echo those poundings and almost to move yielding with them, and the sky to resound.

Then he submitted himself to the barber's soaping and rubbing and shaving, and being after all a generous fellow enough, the barber gave him without extra charge a series of skilful poundings upon his shoulders and back to loosen his muscles.

Horses' hooves, poundings, screams, swords clanging against sword, shouts—all changed for him, as if to a babbling of a crowd or a murmuring of a brook.

If he had tried to travel across them in the body of light, the waves and poundings of this same force would have broken up his astral form and led to his death.

The horses were finding it difficult, too, and their poundings made the hold a bedlam.