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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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16 words match “POUNDER”

POUNDER n. 3 definitions
lue, weight, capacity, etc.; as, a cannon carrying a twelve-pound ball is called a twelve pounder.
COMPOUNDER n. 5 definitions
One who, or that which, compounds or mixes; as, a compounder of medicines.
EXPOUNDER n.
One who expounds or explains; an interpreter.
IMPOUNDER n.
One who impounds.
PROPOUNDER n.
One who propounds, proposes, or offers for consideration. Chillingworth.
TEN-POUNDER n.
A large oceanic fish (Elops saurus) found in the tropical parts of all the oceans. It is used chiefly for bait.
CALIBER; CALIBRE n.
the weight or size of the projectile which a firearm will carry; as, an 8 inch gun, a 12-pounder, a 44 caliber. The caliber of empty tubes. Reid. A battery composed of three guns of small caliber. Prescott.
CONFECTIONER n.
A compounder. [Obs.] Canidia Neapolitana was confectioner of unguents. Haywood.
CULVERIN n.
A long cannon of the 16th century, usually an 18-pounder with serpent-shaped handles. Trump, and drum, and roaring culverin. Mac
DOCTRINAIRE n.
cal concerns the abstract doctrines or the theories of his own philosophical system; a propounder of a new set of opinions; a dogmatic theorist. Used also adjectively; as, doctrinaire notions.
EXPLAINER n.
One who explains; an expounder or expositor; a commentator; an interpreter.
EXPLICATOR n.
One who unfolds or explains; an expounder; an explainer.
EXPOSITOR n.
One who, or that which, expounds or explains; an expounder; a commentator. Bp. Horsley.
MUFTI n.
An official expounder of Mohammedan law.
POM-POM n.
A Vickers-Maxim one-pounder automatic machine cannon using metallic ammunition fed from a lopped belt attached to the gun; -- popularly so called from its peculiar drumming sound in action. Sometimes, any of other similar automatic cannons.
PROPONENT n.
The propounder of a thing.