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Pounder vs Sounder - What's the difference?

pounder | sounder |

As nouns the difference between pounder and sounder

is that pounder is a vessel in which something is pounded, or something used in pounding or pounder can be (only in combination) a gun capable of firing a specified weight of shot while sounder is something, or someone who makes a sound.

As an adjective sounder is

(sound).

pounder

English

Etymology 1

Noun

(en noun)
  • A vessel in which something is pounded, or something used in pounding

    • See also

    * mortar and pestle

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (only in combination) A gun capable of firing a specified weight of shot
  • (only in combination) Something that weighs a specified number of pounds
    • Derived terms
    * quarter-pounder

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    * English senses used only in hyphenated compounds

    sounder

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (sound)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something, or someone who makes a sound.
  • (nautical) A device for making soundings at sea.
  • An instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound.
  • The collective noun for a group of wild boar.
    • English collective nouns

    Derived terms

    * depth sounder * echo sounder * telegraph sounder

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