pounding

Verb (1)

pound (third-person singular simple present pounds, present participle pounding, simple past and past participle pounded)

1. (UK, regional, slang, transitive) To wager a pound on.
   • ‘Good-bye, my dear!' said Sleary. 'You'll make your fortun, I hope, and none of our poor folkth will ever trouble you, I'll pound it.’1854, Dickens, chapter 4, in Hard Times

Verb (2)

pound (third-person singular simple present pounds, present participle pounding, simple past and past participle pounded)

1. To confine in, or as in, a pound; to impound.
   • When I short haue shorne my sowce face
     & swigg’d my horny barrell,
     In an oaken Inne I pound my skin
     as a suite of guilt apparrellc. 1620, anonymous, “Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song” in Giles Earle his Booke (British Museum, Additional MSS. 24, 665)

Verb (3)

pound (third-person singular simple present pounds, present participle pounding, simple past and past participle pounded)

1. (transitive) To strike hard, usually repeatedly.
   • She had Lord James' collar in one big fist and she pounded the table with the other and talked a blue streak. Nobody could make out plain what she said, for she was mainly jabbering Swede lingo, but there was English enough, of a kind, to give us some idee.1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter XII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   hammer, pelt, bang, baste, batter, beat, belabor, blow, boom-boom, buffet

2. (transitive) To crush to pieces; to pulverize.
   • Pound an onion, warm a spoonful of ghee and throw in the onion, brown it slightly, add your curry stuff, brown this till it smells pleasantly, […]1887, Indian Cookery "Local" for Young Housekeepers: Second Edition, page 67

   Synonyms:

   pulverate, triturate

3. (slang, transitive) To eat or drink very quickly.
   • You really pounded that beer!

   Synonyms:

   bolt, down, chug, eat, have, fret, drink, hydrate, imbibe, wet one's whistle

4. (slang, transitive) To pitch consistently to a certain location.
   • The pitcher has been pounding the outside corner all night.

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