pounder
/ˈpaʊndə
/noun [usually in combination]
1A person or thing weighing a specified number of pounds: Sloan set a blue-shark record with a 184-pounder...
- Eventually, contact was made with a fish and I was quite pleased to record another eleven pounder.
- The fish, even the strong 2 - pounders, didn't have a chance.
- The 6-1, 215-pounder is physical and will deliver a big hit.
1.1A gun designed to fire a shell weighing a specified number of pounds.These shells, fired from a 25 pounder gun, are said to be in storage and not under the operational control of the Indian Army....
- Factories also produce Sunderland flying-boats, 6 - pounder anti-tank guns and shells.
- Elsewhere, gunners from the King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery using six QF 13 - pounder guns, fired the salute in London's Hyde Park.
2A person or thing that pounds something: he’s direct, but not abrasive, not a desk-pounder...
- Kashipembe is distilled in the following manner: firstly the shells are cracked by using the traditional pounder and pounding block.
- Some of the basic tools - such as cutters, pounders, levers, containers, and weapons such as projectiles - are universal.
- Since then, formerly unassailable reputations have been elevated and devastated, unstoppable swillers have clashed with immovable pounders, and many great men and women have been carried away by the tide.
