Definitions for pounders

pounders pound·er

Spelling: [poun-der]
IPA: /ˈpaʊn dər/

Pounders is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 417 anagrams from letters in pounders (denoprsu).

Definitions for pounders

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 pounders

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

Examples for pounders

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for pounders
Scrable

10

Words with friends

13

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