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Definition of Pound up
1. Verb. Shut up or confine in any enclosure or within any bounds or limits. "The prisoners are safely pounded"
Generic synonyms: Confine, Hold, Restrain
Related verbs: Impound, Pound
Derivative terms: Poundage
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pound Up
Literary usage of Pound up
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"Where the income is derived from personal exertion the rate of tax n 4\<\.
in the pound up to £800, and ?d. in the pound over £800. Kr>r income derived from ..."
2. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood, John Christopher Atkinson (1872)
"B. To pound up water is to stop it back, and thus to collect a head of water ...
Moni punt hire worde vorte letten mo ut :' many pound up their words for to ..."
3. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood, John Christopher Atkinson (1872)
"Moni punt hire worde vorte leiten mo ut : ' many pound up their words for to let
more out—p. 72. Penance. — Penitent. ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"Where the income is derived from personal exertion the rate of tax is 4(d.
in the pound up to £800, and yd. in the pound over £800. ..."
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