pounders's Usage Examples:

In other words, the Druids constituted the learned and the priestly class, and they were in addition the chief expounders and guardians of the law.

Thus the dignitaries, whose character seems to us specially a religious one, are in reality doctors, or expounders and interpreters of the law, and officiating ministers charged with the ordinary accomplishment of certain ceremonies, which every other Mussulman, true believer, has an equal right to fulfil.

high, surmounted by statuesque stalagmites, near which is another quarry of satinspar with similar fragments, pounders and aboriginal relics.

Hovey as a prehistoric quarry, proved to be such by the stag horns and boulder pounders found in its vicinity.

Diodes appears also as the author of a code of laws of great strictness, which was held in such esteem that later lawgivers were deemed only its expounders.

Several show signs of use as pounders or rubbing stones and others may have been used as pot boilers.

It is worthy of note that the new school found its earliest professors and its greatest expounders in a part of India outside the districts to which the personal influence of Gotama and of his immediate followers had been confined.

The longline fishery catches every size fish from little babies of 15 pounds to 600 pounders.

I had been fishing with mixed success with my cast of Lowland flies and a brace of half pounders nestled in my bag.

Their artillery was numerous and for the most part of heavy calibre - 18and 24-pounders were common - but the strength of the army lay in its infantry, with its incomparable tenacity in defence and its blind confidence in the bayonet in attack.

Nyborg Ditto, completely rigged, her guns of twenty-four pounders.

When Mr Hovey visited this cave in 1855 he found many extinct torches, charcoal embers, poles and pounders, as well as numerous footprints, in the soft nitreous earth of certain avenues, which were left by exploring parties previous to the coming of the white man.

Synonyms:

pestle, muller, tool,

Antonyms:

walk,