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▪ I. † ˈpounder, n.1 Obs.
Forms: 5 pounder, pondre, punder.
[app. f. pound n.1; perh. in reference to the fact that the auncel had at its end a knob of a pound weight as a counterpoise (see quot. a 1640 in auncel). But it is also possible that the word in the form pondre was immediately from L. pondus, ponder- weight.]
A name of the kind of balance called auncel.
c1425Castell Persev. 2730 in Macro Plays 152 It schal þee weyen, as peys in punder [rime vnder]. 1429Abp. Chicheley in Wilkins Concilia III. 516 Dicto pondere le Auncell scheft seu pounder..doloso quodam stateræ genere. 1439Rolls of Parlt. V. 30/1 On branche of disceit..called a Schafte, othere wise called a Pondre, othere wise called an Hauncere, whiche greved many a trewe man. c1440Promp. Parv. 416/2 Punder, librilla.
▪ II. pounder, n.2|ˈpaʊndə(r)|
Also (1 púnere), 6 pouner.
[f. pound v.1 + -er1. Cf. OF. púnere a pestle, f. púnian pound v.1]
One who or that which pounds.
1. a. An instrument for pounding; a pestle, a crushing beetle; a beater.
a1050[see pound v.1 1]. 1564in Noake Worcestersh. Relics (1877) 12 A garlics morter, a pouner. 1656W. D. tr. Comenius' Gate Lat. Unl. §353 They beat in a stone mortar with a rough or Greek pounder. 1799J. Robertson Agric. Perth 282 There were two pounders, and a third was afterwards added, all from Carron. 1830M. Donovan Dom. Econ. I. 313 Crush them well..with three or four strokes of the pounder. 1899R. Munro Preh. Scot. viii. 304 With the exception of an oblong stone or ‘pounder’ all the stone implements were of flint.
b. A vessel for pounding in; a mortar.
1891Anthony's Photogr. Bull. IV. 56 Indian women pound corn and sift the poundings, and make bread of varying grades of coarseness. A pounder is constructed of a section of a log, and is really a huge mortar, nearly three feet high.
2. a. A person who pounds.
1611Florio, Pestatore, a stamper, a punner [1598, a stamper or beater in a morter]. 1834Darwin in Life & Lett. (1887) I. 254 A certain hunter of beetles, and pounder of rocks. 1894B. Thomson S. Sea Yarns 145 The kava-pounder paused, with stone uplifted.
b. A policeman. U.S. slang.
1938New Yorker 12 Mar. 38/2 Letting the sickly-sweet odor of burning marijuana into the street for the first passing pounder, or patrolman, to smell. 1970C. Major Dict. Afro-Amer. Slang 93 Pounder, a policeman or detective.
c. Surfing slang. (See quot. 1967.)
1967J. Severson Great Surfing Gloss., Pounder, an unusually hard-breaking wave. 1970[see greenie].
▪ III. pounder, n.3 Now rare.|ˈpaʊndə(r)|
[f. pound v.2 + -er1.]
One whose office it is to pound cattle; = pound-keeper, pinder, poinder.
1622Canterb. Marr. Licences (MS.), Xpoferus Hewes of St. Mary's in Dover, pownder. 1655Boston Rec. (1877) II. 123 Tho. Alcock chosen Cow keeper for this yeare,..as also to be pounder. 1848J. Kirkpatrick Relig. Orders, etc. Norwich 319 At a court of mayoralty, 26 Nov. 1679, the inhabitants of the Castle and Fee have liberty to erect a pound..and the pounder to dwell upon the fee.
▪ IV. ˈpounder, n.4
[f. pound n.1 + -er1.]
I.
1. Something of a pound weight, e.g. a fish.
1834J. Wilson in Blackw. Mag. XXXV. 790 You may pick a pounder out of any black pool. 1898Westm. Gaz. 29 June 5/3 A half-pound trout on this tiny lake will show as good sport as a pounder elsewhere.
II. In combination with a prefixed numeral.
2. Something weighing a specified number of pounds; spec. a gun carrying a shot of a specified weight; rarely, a projectile of a specified weight. Cf. six-pounder, ten-pounder.
1684[see four C. 2]. 1695Lond. Gaz. No. 3112/3 We found in the Castle of Namur..69 Pieces of Cannon, viz. 7 twenty four Pounders, 3 sixteen Pounders, 2 twelve Pounders, 9 ten Pounders,..3 three Pounders, 1 two Pounder. 1747[see nine a. 5 b]. 1756–7tr. Keysler's Trav. (1760) I. 317 The French had erected a battery of twenty-four sixty pounders directly over one of the mines of the citadel. 1771[see two IV. 1]. 1845[see one-pounder s.v. one B. 35]. 1861W. F. Collier Hist. Eng. Lit. 403 A silver-scaled twenty-pounder. 1862Rambler Mar. 414 A large number of 100-pounder Armstrong guns. 1896[see seven C. 3]. 1901Westm. Gaz. 10 Aug. 2/1 ‘Everyone must bring his own mug and a cake’..we have carried a two-pounder at the ‘handle-bar’. 1915A. D. Gillespie Let. 14 June in Lett. from Flanders (1916) 196 They started with 33-pounder bombs, like a big turnip with a long handle, and we watched them sailing through the air. 1915C. Mackenzie Guy & Pauline 264 ‘I know a man..who caught a four pounder with a bumble-bee.’ ‘I caught a six pounder at Oxford with a mouse's head myself.’ 1977F. Parrish Fire in Barley ii. 25 He had sometimes seen very big trout here, three and four pounders. 1978K. Bonfiglioli All Tea in China x. 127 The gunner ambled towards the long brass Armstrong 68-pounder.
3. a. A person possessing, having an income of, or paying (e.g. as rent) a specified number of pounds sterling; a woman having a marriage-portion of so many pounds.
1706Farquhar Recruiting Officer iii. i, I must meet a lady, a twenty thousand pounder, presently, upon the walk by the river. 1754J. Shebbeare Matrimony (1766) I. 69 The eldest Daughter of..one of the richest Merchants in the City; a Seventy Thousand Pounder. 1840Thackeray Catherine iii, Rich Miss Dripping, the twenty-thousand-pounder from London.
b. A bank-note or other article of the value of a specified number of pounds sterling.
1755Johnson s.v., A note or bill is called a twenty pounder or ten pounder, from the sum it bears. 1829Marryat F. Mildmay iv, I pocketed the little donation—it was a ten-pounder. 1895Westm. Gaz. 23 Feb. 2/1 It is..cheering, to discuss airily for the nonce, links which are two thousand pounders, and single pearl pins worth {pstlg}1,200 each.
III. 4. attrib. and Comb., as pounder pear = pound-pear (pound n.1 4); one-, two- (etc.) pounder cartridge, 12- (etc.) pounder gun, etc.
1697Dryden Virg. Georg. ii. 127 Unlike are Bergamotes and pounder Pears. 1807Hutton Course Math. II. 261 What length of a 36-pounder gun [etc.]? 1828J. M. Spearman Brit. Gunner 362, 2-pounders take about 4 sheets of 12-pounder cartridge paper... ½-pounders, 1 sheet of 9-pounder paper. 1863P. Barry Dockyard Econ. 95 The 12-pounder Armstrong field pieces are believed by the Committee to be efficient.
▪ V. † ˈpounder, v. Obs. rare—0.
[app. freq. of pound v.1]
= pound v.1 1.
1570Levins Manip. 78/8 To pounder, tritumare. |