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Definition pound

Etymology 1

From Middle English pound, from Old English pund (“a pound, weight”), from Proto-Germanic *pund? (“pound, weight”), an early borrowing from Latin pond? (“by weight”), ablative form of pondus (“weight”), from Proto-Indo-European *pend-, *spend- (“to pull, stretch”). Cognate with Dutch pond, German Pfund, Swedish pund. Doublet of pood.

Noun

pound (plural pounds) (sometimes pound after numerals)

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.

Etymology 2

From Middle English pounde, ponde, pund, from Old English pund (“an enclosure”), related to Old English pyndan (“to enclose, shut up, dam, impound”). Compare also Old English pynd (“a cistern, lake”).

Noun

pound (plural pounds)

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.

Verb

pound (third-person singular simple present pounds, present participle pounding, simple past and past participle pounded)

1. To confine in, or as in, a pound; to impound.

Etymology 3

From an alteration of earlier poun, pown, from Middle English pounen, from Old English p?nian (“to pound, beat, bray, bruise, crush”), from Proto-Germanic *p?n?n? (“to break to pieces, pulverise”). Related to Saterland Frisian Pün (“debris, fragments”), Dutch puin (“debris, fragments, rubbish”), Low German pun (“fragments”). Perhaps influenced by Etymology 2 Middle English *pound, pond, from Old English *pund, pynd, in relation to the hollow mortar for pounding with the pestle.

Verb

pound (third-person singular simple present pounds, present participle pounding, simple past and past participle pounded)

1. (transitive) To strike hard, usually repeatedly.
2. (transitive) To crush to pieces; to pulverize.
3. (transitive, slang) To eat or drink very quickly.
4. (transitive, baseball, slang) To pitch consistently to a certain location.
5. (intransitive, of a body part, generally heart, blood, or head) To beat strongly or throb.
6. (transitive, vulgar, slang) To penetrate sexually, with vigour.
7. To advance heavily with measured steps.
8. (engineering) To make a jarring noise, as when running.
9. (slang, dated) To wager a pound on.

Noun

pound (plural pounds)

1. A hard blow.

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