Definition of Pound

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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.

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Pound Quotations

It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
Muhammad Ali

Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.
Ernest Hemingway

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
Rudyard Kipling

Last night the United States dropped four 2,000 pound bombs on Saddam Hussein. I don't know anything about explosives, but, my God, do those things even need to explode?
David Letterman

Last night I dreamt I ate a ten pound marshmallow. When I woke up the pillow was gone.
Tommy Cooper

I don't weigh a pound over one hundred and eighty and, what's more, I never did.
Fatty Arbuckle

I just like to catch fish, I don't care if it weighs half a pound or 10 pounds. But I can't do a lot of casting. I can work a jig or a worm. But not for long, especially if the big ones are biting. Those big bass will make it hurt after a while.
Terry Bradshaw

An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
Thomas Fuller

An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition.
Michael Korda

An once of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.
Michael Korda

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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