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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

The act of beating, bruising, or breaking up; a beating.

A pounded or pulverized substance.

[R.]

“Covered with the poundings of these rocks.”

J. S. Blackie.

ppr.

Beating; bruising; pulverizing; impounding.

pounding

pounding ‎(plural poundings)

An act in which something or someone is pounded
- 2008 January 21, Robin Pogrebin, “Undaunted Director at Indian Museum”, in New York Times:
  “I took a few poundings in the past.”

pounding ‎(comparative more pounding, superlative most pounding)