pounder

A pound-keeper.

One who pounds.

An instrument for pounding.

A pestle.

The beater of a fulling-mill.

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.

A person who promises or pays a specified number of pounds sterling.

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.

A kind of pear, supposed to weigh a pound.

One who, or that which, pounds, as a stamp in an ore mill.