pounding

verb
/ˈpaʊn.dɪŋ/

Definitions

  1. present participle and gerund of pound

  2. An act in which something or someone is pounded.

    • “I took a few poundings in the past.”
  3. An old-fashioned event to welcome someone (typically a new pastor) to a new community by…

    An old-fashioned event to welcome someone (typically a new pastor) to a new community by bring gifts of storable food (a pound of coffee, flour, sugar, etc.) to help stock the pantry. It is somewhat similar to a “shower”.

  4. + 1 more definition
    1. Characterized by heavy or loud throbs.

      • pounding rain
      • I have a pounding headache.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at pounding. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at pounding. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at pounding

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA