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say it: POWN-dur
pounder is a noun meaning "(used only in combination) something weighing a given number of pounds". It is pronounced /ˈpaʊndɚ/ — POWN-dur. It carries 2 recorded senses.
(used only in combination) something weighing a given number of pounds
“the fisherman caught a 10-pounder”
“their linemen are all 300-pounders”
combining form
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for pounder come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.