Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
POUNDER
pestle, muller, pounder
(noun) a heavy tool of stone or iron (usually with a flat base and a handle) that is used to grind and mix material (as grain or drugs or pigments) against a slab of stone
pounder
(noun) (used only in combination) something weighing a given number of pounds; “the fisherman caught a 10-pounder”; “their linemen are all 300-pounders”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Noun
pounder (plural pounders)
A vessel in which something is pounded, or an implement used in pounding.
Etymology 2
Noun
pounder (plural pounders)
(in combination) A gun capable of firing a specified weight of shot in pounds.
(in combination) Something that weighs a specified number of pounds.
(in combination) Something or someone costing so many pounds sterling.
Anagrams
• unroped
Proper noun
Pounder
A surname.
Anagrams
• unroped
Source: Wiktionary
Pound"er, n.
1. One who, or that which, pounds, as a stamp in an ore mill.
2. An instrument used for pounding; a pestle.
3. A person or thing, so called with reference to a certain number of pounds in value, weight, capacity, etc.; as, a cannon carrying a twelve-pound ball is called a twelve pounder.
Note: Before the English reform act of 1867, one who was an elector by virtue of paying ten pounds rent was called a ten pounder.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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