In The Hobbit, this word is only used as a verb – and, in fact, only as an imperative verb in rhyming verse!
• 1.066 Pound them up with a thumping pole;
• 4.020 Pound, pound, far underground!
• 4.020 Pound, pound, far underground!
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[…] Dump the crocks in a boiling bowl; Pound them up with a thumping pole; And when you’ve finished, if any are whole, Send them down […]
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