Pounder: alternatives and connections

To render American; to assimilate to the Americans in customs, ideas, etc.; to stamp with American characteristics.

Pertaining to an average or mean; medial; containing a mean proportion; of a mean size, quality, ability, etc.; ordinary; usual; as, a…

A weight used in the East, varying according to the locality; in Turkey, the greater batman is about 157 pounds, the lesser only a fou…

To shape on, or stamp with, a block; as, to block a hat.

To stamp with the broad seal; to make sure; to guarantee or warrant.

A weight, at Madras 500 pounds, at Bombay 560 pounds.

A weight used in southern Europe and East for heavy articles. It varies in different localities; thus, at Rome it is nearly 75 pounds,…

The peculiar quality, or the sum of qualities, by which a person or a thing is distinguished from others; the stamp impressed by natur…

A weight. A clove of cheese is about eight pounds, of wool, about seven pounds.

To stamp or impress; to affect.

A stamp; an indication; a sign.

To stamp; to detect; to discover.

To stamp; to mark as /ith a stamp; to impress deeply.

A part which acts by falling, as a stamp in a fulling mill, or the device in a spinning machine to arrest motion when a thread breaks.

A sword; -- so called from the stamp of a fox on the blade, or perhaps of a wolf taken for a fox.

To thicken by moistening, heating, and pressing, as cloth; to mill; to make compact; to scour, cleanse, and thicken in a mill.

A mill for grinding grain; especially, a mill for grinding grists, or portions of grain brought by different customers; a custom mill.

The official stamp of the Goldsmiths' Company and other assay offices, in the United Kingdom, on gold and silver articles, attesting t…