Pounding

pounding
    n 1: repeated heavy blows [syn: {pounding}, {buffeting}]
    2: an instance of rapid strong pulsation (of the heart); "he
       felt a throbbing in his head" [syn: {throb}, {throbbing},
       {pounding}]
    3: the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows); "the
       sudden hammer of fists caught him off guard"; "the pounding
       of feet on the hallway" [syn: {hammer}, {pound}, {hammering},
       {pounding}]
    

Pound \Pound\ (pound), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pounded}; p. pr. &
   vb. n. {Pounding}.] [OE. pounen, AS. punian to bruise. Cf.
   {Pun} a play on words.]
   1. To strike repeatedly with some heavy instrument; to beat.
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            With cruel blows she pounds her blubbered cheeks.
                                                  --Dryden.
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   2. To comminute and pulverize by beating; to bruise or break
      into fine particles with a pestle or other heavy
      instrument; as, to pound spice or salt.
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Pounding \Pound"ing\, n.
   1. The act of beating, bruising, or breaking up; a beating.
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   2. A pounded or pulverized substance. [R.] "Covered with the
      poundings of these rocks." --J. S. Blackie.
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64 Moby Thesaurus words for "pounding":
      abrasion, atomization, attrition, barrage, beat, beating,
      brecciation, clicking, comminution, crumbling, crushing, detrition,
      disintegration, drum, drum music, drumbeat, drumfire, drumming,
      flutter, fluttering, fragmentation, granulation, granulization,
      grating, grinding, levigation, mashing, palpitant, palpitation,
      paradiddle, patter, pitapat, pitter-patter, pound, powdering,
      pulsation, rat-a-tat, rat-tat, rat-tat-tat, rataplan, rattattoo,
      roll, rub-a-dub, ruff, ruffle, shredding, smashing, spatter,
      spattering, splutter, spluttering, sputter, sputtering, staccato,
      tat-tat, tattoo, throb, throbbing, thrum, thrumming, thumping,
      ticking, tom-tom, trituration