pounder

plural pounders

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

plural pounders · alternative pr. · alternative pdr. · alternative pdr

1. in compoundsA gun capable of firing a specified weight of shot in pounds.

   The ship fired the twelve-pounder twice during the battle.

2. in compoundsSomething that weighs a specified number of pounds.

   The Quarter Pounder with Cheese

   1 more example

   "Okay, that's a keeper," Harold said as he netted the 3-pounder and put him on a stringer over the side of the boat.

   1970, Field & Stream, volume 75, number 7, page 76

plural pounders

1. in compoundsSomething or someone costing so many pounds sterling.

   The striker they bought from United was a million-pounder.

plural Pounders

1. A surname.