Crossword-Solution: POUND 5 letters, 153 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Pound	v. t.	To strike repeatedly with some heavy instrument; to beat.
Pound	v. t.	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.
Pound	v. i.	To strike heavy blows; to beat.
Pound	v. i.	To make a jarring noise, as in running; as, the engine pounds.
Pound	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.
Pound	n.	A level stretch in a canal between locks.
Pound	n.	A kind of net, having a large inclosure with a narrow entrance into which fish are directed by wings spreading outward.
Pound	v. t.	To confine in, or as in, a pound; to impound.
Pound	pl.	of Pound
Pound	n.	A certain specified weight; especially, a legal standard consisting of an established number of ounces.
Pound	n.	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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Word		Anagrams
POUND	anagram	DNUOP

We have 153 clues for the answer “POUND”

Clue	Answers
$2.80 plus.	1 answer
.0005 tons	1 answer
British currency unit	1 answer
Unit of British currency	1 answer
AUSTRALIAN monetary unit, former	1 answer
To strike repeatedly with force	1 answer
About 454 grams	1 answer
American poet, cited for treason.	1 answer
Basic monetary unit of Egypt, Sudan and Syria	1 answer
Basic monetary unit.	1 answer
Beat excitedly	1 answer
Butcher shop unit	1 answer
Dogcatcher's drop-off spot	1 answer
Dollar's British counterpart	1 answer
ENGLISH note	1 answer
Enclosure for strays	1 answer
Ezra ___, US poet	1 answer
Feared destination in "Lady and the Tramp"	1 answer
Flat-rate unit, usually?	1 answer
From 4.03 to 2.80.	1 answer
Fruit-store weight measure	1 answer
Fruit-store weight unit	1 answer
Ghostwriter of "Hugh Selwyn Mauberley"?	1 answer
HOLDING bay for stray animals	1 answer
Hammer on	1 answer
Heavy Cambridge coin	1 answer
Hit with a hammer	1 answer
IRISH monetary unit	1 answer
Irish currency replaced by the euro	1 answer
It may be sterling	1 answer
Kilogram's predecessor	1 answer
Manx currency	1 answer
Modernist poet	1 answer
Mutt's place	1 answer
Nottingham note	1 answer
Olympic poobah Dick	1 answer
Poet Ezra	1 answer
Poet born in Idaho	1 answer
Poet pal of Hemingway	1 answer
Potato unit	1 answer
Rather heavy British coin	1 answer
Really hammer	1 answer
SYRIAN coin	1 answer
SYRIAN currency	1 answer
Scale increment	1 answer
Scottish scratch	1 answer
Stray dog house	1 answer
Stray dog place	1 answer
Temporary home for strays	1 answer
The basic unit of money in Great Britain	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

TAREE

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with POUND (5)

And here she was losing all this time! After a while she heard the Hun’s clumsy trot in the hall, and then a pound on the door.

The Song of the Lark Willa Cather 1992

She tried to pierce the distance far away, beyond which lay the shores of France: that relentless and stern France which was exacting her pound of flesh, the blood-tax from the noblest of her sons.

The Scarlet Pimpernel Baroness Orczy 1993

There was a fifty-pound sack of corn meal, and a side of bacon, ammunition, and a four-gallon jug of whisky, and an old book and two newspapers for wadding, besides some tow.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993

There was likewise a square box of pine-wood, full of soap in bars; also, another of the same size, in which were tallow candles, ten to the pound.

The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne 1993

Duncan was a 240 pound six foot four college linebacker who had let his considerable bulk accumulate around the middle.

Terminal Compromise Winn Schwartau 1993

Quotes with POUND (3)

Culturally, though not theologically, I’m a Christian. I was born a Protestant of the white Anglo-Saxon persuasion. And while I do love that great teacher of peace who was called Jesus, and while I do reserve the right to ask myself in certain trying situations what indeed He would do, I can’t swallow that one fixed rule of Christianity insisting that Christ is the only path to God. Strictly speaking, then, I cannot call myself a Christian. Most of the Christians I know accep…

Elizabeth Gilbert Eat, Pray, Love

Whatever hypnotizing charms I may have over boys, did not in fact work on three hundred pound girl elves. Not that I would ever try it again.

Cyndi Goodgame Daughter of Anat

USURY: Everybody's looking for the job in which you never have to pay anyone their pound of flesh. Self-employed nirvana. A lot of artists like to think of themselves as uncompromising; a lot of management consultants won't tell you what they do until they've sunk five pints. I don't think anybody should give themselves air just because they don't have to hand over a pound of flesh every day at 5pm, and I don't think anyone should beat themselves with broken glass because the…

Zadie Smith On Beauty

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 72 times in crossword archives (1944–2023).