pounder

¹

[ poun-der ]

noun

1. a person or thing that pounds, pound, pulverizes, or beats.

pounder

²

[ poun-der ]

noun

1. a person or thing having or associated with a weight or value of a pound or a specified number of pounds pound (often used in combination):

   He caught only one fish, but it was an eight-pounder.

2. a gun that discharges a missile of a specified weight in pounds: pound:

   a ten-pounder.

-pounder

/ ˈpaʊndə /

noun

1. something weighing a specified number of pounds

   a 200-pounder

2. something worth a specified number of pounds

   a ten-pounder

3. a gun that discharges a shell weighing a specified number of pounds

   a two-pounder

Word History and Origins

Origin of pounder¹

before 1050; Old English pūnere pestle (not found in ME); pound ¹, -er ¹

Origin of pounder²

First recorded in 1635–45; pound ² + -er ¹

Example Sentences

It is a good-sized quarter pounder of pearly meat spiced and rolled in Japanese breadcrumbs, then pan-fried to a crisp.

From The Daily Beast

Never a renegade or table-pounder, he pushed for incremental change through quiet persuasion.

From The Daily Beast

A hundred-pounder gun was being fired from the ship's side right over his head.

From Project Gutenberg

On trains, busses, and Pullmans he pays the same adult fare as the two-hundred-pounder across the aisle.

From Project Gutenberg

I used to wade out to where the turtles were, and on catching a big six-hundred-pounder, I would calmly sit astride on his back.

From Project Gutenberg

"Hadn't oughter named sich a clumsy pounder as that 'Abraham Lincoln,'" he mused.

From Project Gutenberg

They only returned to the shore after a four-pounder had been fired over their heads.

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