four-pounder

1. 1.

   an artillery gun that throws a shot weighing four pounds

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Questions about four-pounder

What does four-pounder mean?

four-pounder means "an artillery gun that throws a shot weighing four pounds".

How many syllables are in four-pounder?

four-pounder has 3 syllables and divides as four--poun-der under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is four-pounder a common word?

four-pounder is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.