Definitions for pounder

pounder pound·er

Spelling: [poun-der]
IPA: /ˈpaʊn dər/

Pounder is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 198 anagrams from letters in pounder (denopru).

Definitions for pounder

noun

  1. a person or thing that pounds, pulverizes, or beats.
  2. a person or thing having or associated with a weight or value of a pound or a specified number of pounds (often used in combination):
  3. a gun that discharges a missile of a specified weight in pounds:

Origin of pounder

before 1050; Old English pūnere pestle (not found in ME); see pound1, -er1

Examples for pounder

One of the carronades of the battery, a twenty-four pounder, had broken loose.

Run in six of the guns, and throw a tarpaulin over the eighteen pounder.

On the plain of Acre I picked up a cannon ball, probably a twelve pounder.

I tell you it was exciting to hook a five or six pounder and have him make off with a lurch.

Get a strong barrel and a pounder—such as used by washerwomen; also a wringer.

He was about a three-hundred pounder, white and blue and green, a rare specimen of fish.

The big twenty-four pounder was dismounted, and five of its crew killed.

There are two twelve pounder cannons of English make in the castle.

And fixed on the wheel there was to be a crank that worked the pounder in the mortar.

Then they replied with their rifles, and two Maxims and an eleven pounder were got to work.

Word Value for pounder
Scrable

10

Words with friends

13

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