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Definition: Pounder |
PounderNoun1. Something weighing a given number of pounds; "the fisherman caught a 10-pounder" or "their linemen are all 300-pounders". 2. A heavy tool of stone or iron (usually with a flat base and a handle) that is used to grind and mix material (as grain or drugs or pigments) against a slab of stone. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "pounder" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1840. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | An ore-mill stamp. (references) |
Occupations | Tends machine that pounds down and buffs edges of leather uppers to provide smooth base for outsole: Starts machine and moves bottom of lasted shoe against wheel that pounds out puckers on edges of upper. Buffs bottom of lasted shoe on emery wheel to provide smooth surface. May be designated according to area of shoe pounded as Bottom Pounder, Cement Shoes (boot & shoe); Heel-Seat Pounder (boot & shoe); Toe Pounder (boot & shoe). (references) |
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Synonyms: PounderSynonyms: muller (n), pestle (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Arms | Gun, piece; firearms; artillery, ordnance; siege train, battering train; park, battery; cannon, gun of position, heavy gun, field piece, mortar, howitzer, carronade, culverin, basilisk; falconet, jingal, swivel, pederero, bouche a feu; petard, torpedo; mitrailleur, mitrailleuse; infernal machine; smooth bore, rifled cannon, Armstrong gun, Lancaster gun, Paixhan gun, Whitworth gun, Parrott gun, Krupp gun, Gatling gun, Maxim gun, machine gun; pompom; ten pounder. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | And you know what they call a a a Quarter Pounder with Cheese in Paris (Pulp Fiction; writing credit: Quentin Tarantino; Roger Avary) They don't call it a Quarter Pounder with cheese (Pulp Fiction; writing credit: Quentin Tarantino; Roger Avary) A quarter pounder with cheese (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) Quarter pounder with cheesewell I can see the cheese but (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) Don't look at me, I'm just the Chicken McNugget, you the Quarter Pounder! (Sliders; writing credit: Javier Azpeitia; Margarita Mareo) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Pill Pounder (1923) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Chief Petty Officer demonstrates the operation of a Maxim 1- pounder machine gun, circa May 1898. USS Topeka is fitting out in the background. Credit: NAVY. |  | U.S.S. Brooklyn 6 pounder gun. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | U.S.S. Vixen, 6 pounder gun. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | U.S.S. Iowa, 6 pounder. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Battery No. 1.--100 and 200 pounder Parrots opposite Yorktown and Gloucester in front of Farenholts house. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Siege of Sevastopol from the New 32 pounder battery above the left attack Picquet House / M.A. Biddulph Captn. R.A. del. ; E. Walker lith. ; Day & Son, Lithrs. to the Queen. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Miller | Strawberry Zinfandel goes with Filet o' Fish or Chicken McNuggets while Boone's Blackberry Ridge should be reserved for McRibb or a Quarter Pounder. |
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| "Pounder" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 62.96% of the time. "Pounder" is used about 27 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 62.96% | 17 | 85,106 |
| Noun (proper) | 37.04% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Total | 100.00% | 27 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "pounder" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Pounder | Last name | 200 | 39,543 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expression using "pounder": ten pounder. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "pounder": six-pounder. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "pounder"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | thërrmues, shtypës (ejector, expediter, leaden, oppressive, oppressor, repressive, suppressor). (various references) | |
Arabic | مدقة يد الهاون. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | хаванче, хаван (mortar), чукало (knocker, pestle, rapper), чук (hammer), позамазвам, позамислям се върху. (various references) | |
Czech | palièka (gavel, pestle). (various references) | |
Danish | skyllekasse. (various references) | |
Dutch | stamper (pestle). (various references) | |
Farsi | یک رطلی , هاون (Mortar), کوبنده (Knocker, Masher), لیره دار, وزن شده برحسب رطل , برحسب لیره . (various references) | |
French | pilon. (various references) | |
German | Pistill (pestle), Stoessel (pestle), stampfer (beetle, masher, plunger, tamper). (various references) | |
Greek | κοπανιστήσ, λιβρών. (various references) | |
Hebrew | כתשן. (various references) | |
Hungarian | zúzó (cracker, crushing, pestle, shattering), könnyű mozsártörő, könnyű mozsár, döngölő (mallet, rammer). (various references) | |
Indonesian | penumbuk (martingale), pengentak (pestle), alu (rice pestle). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 杵 (mallet, pestle). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | きね (mallet, pestle). (various references) | |
Manx | broojeyder (bruiser). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ounderpay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pilão (bruising mail, mortar, pestle, ponder, tup), mão de almofariz (pestle). (various references) | |
Romanian | porumbel guşat, obiect cântãrind livre. (various references) | |
Russian | ступка (mortar, poundes, stamp), пестик (pestle, pistil, ponder). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | novčanica od deset funti. (various references) | |
Spanish | pisón (ram, rammer), mazo (beetle, club, gavel, mace, mallet, maul), maja. (various references) | |
Swedish | pundare, mortelstöt (pestle). (various references) | |
Turkish | librelik şey, librelik. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | ступка (mortar), товкач (dasher, pestle). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | máy nghiền (breaker, cracker, crusher, disintegrator, masticator, mill, triturator), máy giã, cối giã, cái ch y (pestle). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | pistillum. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "pounder": pounders. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "pounder": compounder, expounder, propounder, tenpounder. (additional references) | |
Words containing "pounder": compounders, expounders, propounders, tenpounders. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "pounder" (pronounced pou"nder) |
| 4 | -ou" n d er | bounder, cofounder, flounder, founder, rounder, sounder. |
| 3 | -n d er | Ender, engender, Alexander, asunder, attainder, auslander, Bander, bartender, bender, binder, blander, blender, blinder, blonder, blunder, bookbinder, brander, bystander, calamander, calendar, candor, cinder, commander, Condor, contender, coriander, cylinder, defender, extender, Fender, finder, fonder, gander, gender, gerrymander, grander, grinder, highlander, hinder, islander, kinder, Lander, launder, lavender, lender, mainlander, meander, minder, offender, oleander, pander, pathfinder, Pinder, plunder, ponder, pretender, rejoinder, remainder, reminder, render, responder, salamander, sander, sender, Sidewinder, slander, slender, Spender, splendor, squander, Stander, sunder, surrender, suspender, tender, thunder, tinder, transponder, under, vendor, viewfinder, wander, weekender, winder, wonder, yonder, Zander. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: unroped. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-n-o-p-r-u" | |
-1 letter: enduro, ponder, poured, pruned, rouped, undoer. | |
-2 letters: doper, drone, drupe, duper, nuder, pedro, perdu, pored, pound, prone, proud, prude, prune, redon, roped, rouen, round, under, upend, uredo. | |
-3 letters: doer, done, dope, dore, dorp, dour, drop, dune, dupe, dure, durn, duro, euro, nerd, node, nope, nude, nurd, oped, open, pend, peon, pond, pone, pore. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-n-o-p-r-u" | |
+1 letter: inpoured, pounders, prebound, unprobed, unproved. | |
+2 letters: expounder, gunpowder, ponderous, purloined, splendour, uncropped, underplot, ungrouped. | |
+3 letters: compounder, expounders, gunpowders, importuned, outpreened, paperbound, plunderous, profounder, pronounced, propounded, propounder, splendours, splendrous, tenpounder, unapproved, underplots, underproof, unexplored, unimproved, unproduced, unprompted, unprovoked, unreported. | |
+4 letters: compounders, deuteranope, incorrupted, outsprinted, paperbounds, ponderously, profoundest, propounders, reproducing, repudiation, splendorous, superabound, supermodern, tenpounders, typefounder, underexpose, underreport, unperformed, unpolarized, unprocessed, unprofessed, unprotected, unstoppered, unsupported. | |
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