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- noun Plural form of
pounder .
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Examples
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-- Eating eight quarter pounders is like driving three hours while burning a 100-watt bulb for 20 days.
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Early-spring anglers use stout rods rigged with live minnows to haul 5-pounders from the raging currents.
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When water conditions are right, there are times in late July and throughout August when an average caster can take impressive numbers of 4 - and 5-pounders from a single casting position.
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The artillery have an increased number of 75 mm. guns, 18 pounders and 4.5 inch howitzers and the present limited issue of 25 pounders is about to be mate, rially increased.
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Mr. Francis G. Powers, of Moweaqua, Ill., has patented an improvement in the class of atmospheric clothes pounders, that is to say, pounders which are constructed with one or more chambers or cavities in which the air is alternately compressed and allowed to expand at each reciprocation.
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Some carried two cannon, six-pounders, that is firing a shell of that weight, while the little fellows had only one gun.
Birth and Death of a Camp. Armistice Puts an End to the Feverish Activity of Camp Polk, at Raleigh, 1919
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I know I'd MUCH prefer using a bottled concoction with ingredients from around the world, all of it assembly-lined in a factory in, say, Terre Haute, Indiana and for sale in the refrigerated shelves of highway gas-stations, lined up beside the day-glo Monster Death Nightrider Energy Drinks and the Cranapple Explosion Bomb O 'Fruit "pounders"!
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The good news is that Rush Limbaugh is going to die soon from lung and mouth cancer because he keeps puffing on those cigars to show how big and rich he is and just how much his clogged arteries are at risk from chomping down ten quarter pounders at McFat drive throughs.
CNN Poll: Americans mostly agree with Obama on Afghanistan 2009
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She carried a long eighteen-pounder, two ten-pounders, and ten six-pounders, and she sailed like a witch.
CHAPTER XXVII 2010
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Caught a few 25 pounders but most were in the 10-15 pound range. great eating.
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