Definitions for "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.
The unit of measure of rail size is weight per yard. For example, a 3-foot (1 yard) length of 90-pound rail weighs 90 pounds. Rail currently rolled in the USA ranges from 112 to 145 pound. Lighter rail is still rolled in other countries.
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 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.
To flatten meats and poultry to a uniform thickness using a meat mallet or rolling pin. This ensures even cooling and also tenderizes tough meat by breaking up connective tissues. Veal and chicken cutlets are often pounded.
Flatten boneless cuts of chicken and meat, using a meat mallet or the flat side of a meat pounder, until they're a uniform thickness.
To flatten food, especially meat, to make it thinner and more tender.
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.
Keywords:  peso, pari, libbra, zupko, grammi
At the time the Paris pound was 489.5 grams (Montagne, Zupko).
16 oz. or 453.59 grams
a dollar is a peso
Keywords:  canal, bief, bratch, locks, stretch
A level stretch in a canal between locks.
The stretch of water on a canal between two locks.
The body of water between locks of a canal. Bief in French.
Pound is a reverse HTTP proxy, load balancer, and SSL wrapper. It proxies client HTTPS requests to HTTP backend servers, distributes the requests among several servers while keeping sessions, supports HTTP/
Pound is a lightweight open source reverse proxy program suitable to be used as a web server load balancing solution. Developed by an IT security company, it has a strong emphasis on security. Using regular expression matching on the requested URLs, Pound can pass different kinds of requests to different backend server groups.
A section of a swale designed to detain runoff.
A temporary compartment or bulk constructed in a fishing stage from boards etc., in which to salt fish. The pounds utilized the existing walls and framing of the stage.
a building generally used as a temporary holding facility for animals, which may not have been built specifically for the purpose of humane animal care, and which usually lacks the capacity to provide the services listed above
Keywords:  happy, medium
a happy medium
Keywords:  jarring, noise, engine, running
To make a jarring noise, as in running; as, the engine pounds.
Keywords:  lobster, storage, holding, live, area
a storage area for holding live lobster
Keywords:  huge, money, amount
a huge amount of money to me
Keywords:  sharp, stroke, sudden, blow, sound
a sudden sharp, powerful stroke or blow, especially one that produces a sound
Keywords:  english, coin
an English coin
Keywords:  keyboard, hash, telephone, key, known
The # key on the telephone or keyboard. Also known as hash.
Keywords:  hit, mark, consistently, your
To consistently hit your mark.
Keywords:  start, good, amount
a good amount to start with, she said
or £ UK pounds.
0.4536 kg