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Meanings of pounder in English

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.

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Usage of pounder in English
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An eight-pounder was caught two days ago on the fly, he said.
The Irish Times
2
By way of comparison, a McDonald's quarter-pounder with cheese contains 500 calories.
The Guardian
3
He intends shooting off his six-pounder before weighing anchor in the morning.
Voyage of the Paper Canoe / A Geographical Journey of 2500 Miles...
4
After each blow the limb would spring back and raise the pounder.
Stories of American Life and Adventure
5
The colonel at once opened fire with his six-pounder loaded with scrap-iron.
Famous Adventures and Prison Escapes of the Civil War
6
The old 24-pounder shot required for its discharge sixteen pounds of powder.
From the Earth to the Moon; and, Round the Moon
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I did not weigh it, but suppose it was about a six-pounder.
Forty Years in South China: The Life of Rev. John Van Nest Talma...
8
A drop of the hand, and a nine-pounder responded from the forecastle.
In the King's name
9
Have landed 12-pounder guns, and if station does not surrender intend shelling.
New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, ...
10
Then he found a tattered goldfish in the gullet of the eleven-pounder.
Alas, Babylon
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You'll have to eat at the same table with some typewriter pounder.
A Hoosier Chronicle
12
Didn't you notice the one hundred and twenty pounder in the waist?
Taken by the Enemy
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She'd be out of there like a cannonball shot from a twelve-pounder.
Mister Slaughter
14
They call him, though a man of diminutive stature, the 'forty-two pounder.'
The Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet in California, Son...
15
But who will walk away the best new skin-pounder in the music game?
Wired
16
Fittock nodded to his mates on the opposite side of the great thirty-two-pounder.
The Only Victor
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
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