pounder (1)

[English pound (1).s.: -er.) A person or thing, so called with reference to a cer tain number of pounds in value, weight, capacity, . The term is commonly applied to pieces of ordnance in combination with a number to denote the weight of the shot they carry; as, a 64- pounder, i. e., a gun carrying a 64-lb. shot. pound-er (2), 8. [Eng. pound (1), v.; -er.) One who or that which pounds; spec if. a pestle, a beater in a fulling-mill, a stamp in an ore-mill. . keeper of a pound. pound-er (3), s. [Eng. pound (2), v.; -er.) The *pound-er (4), s. [Etym. doubtful; prob. the same as pounder (1), from the size and weight.) A large variety of pear; prob. the same as POUND PEAR (q.v.). pound'-Ing, pr. par. & 8. [POUND (1), v.] A. As pr . par .: (See the verb.) B. As subst. The act of beating to powder; a powdered or pounded substance. "Covered with the poundings of these rocks."- Blackie : Lays of Highlands and Islands , p. xviii. *poun-drel, s. [A. S.] A head. *poun-son, *pun-soun, *pun-soune, s. [O. Fr. poinson; French poinçon =a punch.] A bodkin, a dagger. n-soned, adj . [Eng. pounson; -ed.] Ornamented with dags or holes. pouix'-ă, s. [A local Indian name.] Min.: The same as BORAX (q. v.). Pou-part' (tsilent), 8. [From François Poupart, a French anatomist (1661-1709), who described it.] (See compound.) Poupart's ligament, s . Anat.: A ligament affording insertion to the cremaster muscle of the abdomen. Its lower fibers, closely aggregated, constitute a broad band from the anterior superior iliac spine to the spine of the pubis. *poupe, v. i. [From the sound.] To make a noise with a horn. ( Chaucer : C. T., 17,039.) *pôupe, s. [French poupée .) A puppet, a doll. ( Palsgrave .)