pounder

What it means

1. A vessel in which something is pounded, or an implement used in pounding.

   Since we often prefer to pound our own cutlets rather than buy uneven precut cutlets from the store, a meat pounder is an important piece of equipment.

   2014, The Cook's Illustrated Meat Book

2. One who pounds.

   1 more example

   They steal to the huts, where the women are pounding in mortars the coos-coos, or corn, watch till the pounders are gone for sieves to searce the meal, and then slily creep to the mortars, take out the meal, and carry it off in their pangs, looking every moment behind them, to see if they are observed or pursued[.]

   1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 496

In a sentence

Since we often prefer to pound our own cutlets rather than buy uneven precut cutlets from the store, a meat pounder is an important piece of equipment.

2014, The Cook's Illustrated Meat Book

Where it comes from

From pound (“verb”) + -er (“agent suffix”).