pounder

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

• n. A vessel in which something is pounded, or something used in pounding
• n. A gun capable of firing a specified weight of shot
• n. Something that weighs a specified number of pounds

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• n. One who, or that which, pounds, as a stamp in an ore mill.
• n. An instrument used for pounding; a pestle.
• n. A person or thing, so called with reference to a certain number of pounds in value, weight, capacity, etc..

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

• n. A thing or person weighing a specified number of pounds: only in composition, with a numeral; specifically, of artillery, a gun that discharges a missile of the specified weight: thus, a 64-pounder is a cannon firing balls weighing each 64 pounds.
• n. A person who promises or pays a specified number of pounds sterling.
• n. Before the passing of the Reform Act of 1867 the term ten-pounders was applied in Great Britain to those paying the lowest amount of yearly rent (£10) entitling them to vote in parliamentary elections in cities and boroughs.
• n. A kind of pear, supposed to weigh a pound.
• n. A pound-keeper.
• n. One who pounds.
• n. An instrument for pounding.
• n. A pestle.
• n. The beater of a fulling-mill.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• n. (used only in combination) something weighing a given number of pounds
• n. 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