Lexic.us

Definition of Pound

1. Noun. 16 ounces avoirdupois. "He got a hernia when he tried to lift 100 pounds"

2. Verb. Hit hard with the hand, fist, or some heavy instrument. "The fighter managed to pound his opponent"; "A bible-thumping Southern Baptist"

3. Verb. Strike or drive against with a heavy impact. "Pound on the door"

4. Noun. The basic unit of money in Great Britain and Northern Ireland; equal to 100 pence.

5. Verb. Move heavily or clumsily. "The children pound to the playground"; "The heavy man lumbered across the room"

6. Noun. A unit of apothecary weight equal to 12 ounces troy.

7. Verb. Move rhythmically. "Her heart was beating fast"

8. Noun. The basic unit of money in Syria; equal to 100 piasters.

9. Verb. Partition off into compartments. "The locks pound the water of the canal"

10. Noun. The basic unit of money in the Sudan; equal to 100 piasters.

11. Verb. Shut up or confine in any enclosure or within any bounds or limits. "The prisoners are safely pounded"

12. Noun. The basic unit of money in Lebanon; equal to 100 piasters.

13. Verb. Place or shut up in a pound. "Pound the cows so they don't stray"

14. Noun. Formerly the basic unit of money in Ireland; equal to 100 pence.

15. Noun. The basic unit of money in Egypt; equal to 100 piasters.

16. Verb. Break down and crush by beating, as with a pestle. "Pound the roots with a heavy flat stone"

17. Noun. The basic unit of money in Cyprus; equal to 100 cents.

18. Noun. A nontechnical unit of force equal to the mass of 1 pound with an acceleration of free fall equal to 32 feet/sec/sec.

19. Noun. United States writer who lived in Europe; strongly influenced the development of modern literature (1885-1972).

20. Noun. A symbol for a unit of currency (especially for the pound sterling in Great Britain).

21. Noun. A public enclosure for stray or unlicensed dogs. "Unlicensed dogs will be taken to the pound"

22. Noun. The act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows). "The pounding of feet on the hallway"

Definition of Pound

1. v. t. To strike repeatedly with some heavy instrument; to beat.

2. v. i. To strike heavy blows; to beat.

3. n. An inclosure, maintained by public authority, in which cattle or other animals are confined when taken in trespassing, or when going at large in violation of law; a pinfold.

4. v. t. To confine in, or as in, a pound; to impound.

5. n. A certain specified weight; especially, a legal standard consisting of an established number of ounces.

Definition of Pound

1. Noun. Short for pound-force, a unit of force/weight. ¹

2. Noun. A unit of mass equal to 16 avoirdupois ounces (= 453.592 37 g) ¹

3. Noun. A unit of mass equal to 12 troy ounces (? 373.242 g). ¹

4. Noun. (American English) The symbol (unsupported #) (octothorpe, hash) ¹

5. Noun. The unit of currency of used in the United Kingdom and its dependencies. ¹

6. Noun. Any of various units of currency used in Cyprus, Egypt, Lebanon, and formerly in the Republic of Ireland and Israel. ¹

7. Noun. A place for the detention of stray or wandering animals. ¹

8. Noun. A place for the detention of automobiles that have been illegally parked, abandoned, etc. ¹

9. Noun. The part of a canal between two locks, and therefore at the same water level. ¹

10. Verb. (transitive) To strike hard, usually repeatedly. ¹

11. Verb. (transitive) To crush to pieces; to pulverize. ¹

12. Verb. (transitive slang) To eat or drink very quickly. ¹

13. Verb. (transitive baseball slang) To pitch consistently to a certain location. ¹

14. Verb. (intransitive of a body part, generally heart, blood, or head) To beat strongly or throb. ¹

15. Verb. (transitive slang) To vigorously sexually penetrate. ¹

16. Noun. A hard blow. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pound

1. to strike heavily and repeatedly [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pound

poultry poultryman poultrymen poultrywoman poultrywomen poults pounce pounced pouncer pouncers

pounces pouncet pouncets pouncing pouncingly pound-foolish pound-for-pound pound-force pound cake pound cakes

pound for pound pound net pound of flesh pound off pound sand pound shop pound sign pound signs pound sterling

Literary usage of Pound

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. United States Statutes at Large: Containing the Laws and Concurrent by United States (1860)
"On cocoa, one cent per pound; chocolate, four cents per pound; on mace, fifty cents per pound; nutmegs, thirty cents per pound; cloves, eight cents per ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The pound troy in Great Britain is defined as 5760 grains and is divided into 12 ... The imperial standard troy pound constructed in 1758 was the only legal ..."

3. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1896)
"pound was among the refugees; but his collections and papers were destroyed. ... pound was, in July 1707—a year after his return to England—presented by Sir ..."

4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"The avoirdupois dram differs from the apothecaries' dram, and the avoirdupois ounce and pound differ from the troy units of the same name. ..."

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