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Definition of Pound

Pound To strike repeatedly with some heavy instrument; to beat. To comminute and pulverize by beating; to bruise or break into fine particles with a pestle or other heavy instrument; as, to pound spice or salt. To strike heavy blows; to beat. To make a jarring noise, as in running; as, the engine pounds. 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. A level stretch in a canal between locks. A kind of net, having a large inclosure with a narrow entrance into which fish are directed by wings spreading outward. To confine in, or as in, a pound; to impound. of Pound A certain specified weight; especially, a legal standard consisting of an established number of ounces. A British denomination of money of account, equivalent to twenty shillings sterling, and equal in value to about $4.86. There is no coin known by this name, but the gold sovereign is of the same value. Related Definitions: About, Account, An, And, Are, As, At, Authority, Beat, Beating, Between, Break, British, Bruise, But, By, Canal, Cattle, Certain, Coin, Comminute, Confine, Confined, Consisting, Denomination, Directed, Engine, Entrance, Equal, Equivalent, Especially, Established, Fine, Fish, Going, Gold, Having, Heavy, Impound, In, Inclosure, Instrument, Into, Is, Jarring, Kind, Known, Large, Law, Legal, Level, Maintained, Make, Money, Name, Narrow, Net, No, Noise, Number, Of, Or, Other, Outward, Pestle, Pinfold, Pound, Pounds, Public, Pulverize, Repeatedly, Running, Salt, Same, Some, Sovereign, Specified, Spice, Spreading, Standard, Sterling, Stretch, Strike, Taken, The, There, This, To, Trespassing, Twenty, Value, Violation, Weight, When, Which, With

Pound Quotations It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up. Muhammad Ali An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with. Thomas Fuller Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin. Ernest Hemingway I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks. Howard Nemerov I think most people read and re-read the things that they have liked. That's certainly true in my case. I re-read Pound a great deal, I re-read Williams, I re-read Thomas, I re-read the people whom I cam to love when I was at what you might call a formative stage. James Laughlin

Pound Translations pound in Dutch is pond pound in Finnish is survoa pound in French is piler, broyer pound in German is Pfund pound in Italian is libbra pound in Portuguese is libra pound in Spanish is almohadilla pound in Swedish is bulta

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