Crossword-Solution: POUND
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| 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. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
|---|---|---|
| POUND | anagram | DNUOP |
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The old plural of Eye.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Duncan was a 240 pound six foot four college linebacker who had let his considerable bulk accumulate around the middle.
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…
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.
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…
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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).