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pound
  1. A unit of mass equal to 16 avoirdupois ounces (= 453.592 37 g). Today this value is the most common meaning of "pound" as a unit of weight.
  2. A unit of mass equal to 12 troy ounces (≈ 373.242 g). Today, this is a common unit of weight when measuring precious metals, and is little used elsewhere.
  3. (US) The symbol # (octothorpe, hash)
  4. The unit of currency used in the United Kingdom and its dependencies. It is divided into 100 pence.
  5. Any of various units of currency used in Egypt and Lebanon, and formerly in the Republic of Ireland, Cyprus and Israel.
  6. Any of various units of currency formerly used in the United States.
  7. Abbreviation for pound-force, a unit of force/weight. Using this abbreviation to describe pound-force is inaccurate and unscientific.
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  9. Examples:
    1. “So far, the materials I have bought have all cost roughly a pound each.”
      “Using the letters on the phone pad, spell your party's last name and press the pound key.”
      “Today, you can find ultraportable laptops that weigh as little as a pound.”
pound
  1. A place for the detention of stray or wandering animals. An animal shelter.
    1. (by metonymy) The people who work for the pound
  2. A place for the detention of automobiles that have been illegally parked, abandoned, etc. Short form of impound.
  3. A section of a canal between two adjacent locks.
  4. A kind of fishing net, having a large enclosure with a narrow entrance into which fish are directed by wings spreading outward.
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  6. Examples:
    1. “So far, the materials I have bought have all cost roughly a pound each.”
      “Using the letters on the phone pad, spell your party's last name and press the pound key.”
      “Today, you can find ultraportable laptops that weigh as little as a pound.”
pounder
  1. (only in combination) A gun capable of firing a specified weight of shot
  2. (only in combination) Something that weighs a specified number of pounds
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Even small yellows fight like the very devil, and a thirty pounder is a creature to be taken very seriously indeed.”
      “Having said that, the pyrotechnics ensuing from a hooked thirty or forty pounder might easily overwhelm the unprepared.”
      “All the evidence suggests that this is one of the key times to catch an elusive 40 pounder.”
poundal
  1. (physics) A unit equal to the force needed to accelerate a mass of one pound at a rate of one foot per second per second.
pounder
  1. A vessel in which something is pounded, or something used in pounding
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Even small yellows fight like the very devil, and a thirty pounder is a creature to be taken very seriously indeed.”
      “Having said that, the pyrotechnics ensuing from a hooked thirty or forty pounder might easily overwhelm the unprepared.”
      “All the evidence suggests that this is one of the key times to catch an elusive 40 pounder.”
poundmaster
  1. The person in charge of an animal pound.
pounding
  1. An act in which something or someone is pounded
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  3. Examples:
    1. “He ignored the pain, his full focus on the pounding of his fists against the four-inch-thick metal door.”
      “His head is now pulsating rhythmically, so Danny starts slapping his forehead to the pounding of the beat.”
      “The women's team experienced a pounding at the hands of their archrivals.”
poundmaker
  1. (Canada, US, Amerind culture) One who makes buffalo pounds.
poundkeeper
  1. The keeper of a pound.
pound
  1. A hard blow.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “So far, the materials I have bought have all cost roughly a pound each.”
      “Using the letters on the phone pad, spell your party's last name and press the pound key.”
      “Today, you can find ultraportable laptops that weigh as little as a pound.”
poundmasters
  1. plural of poundmaster
poundkeepers
  1. plural of poundkeeper
poundmakers
  1. plural of poundmaker
poundings
  1. plural of pounding
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  3. Examples:
    1. “After three solid poundings, the door slowly creaked open to reveal an elderly old woman.”
      “From Denver to Duluth, Buffalo to Billings, The Daily Beast ranks the cities that take the worst winter poundings each year.”
      “Almost as soon as she had, the door shook with heavy, rhythmic poundings.”
poundals
  1. plural of poundal
pounders
pounds
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