Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A dialectal variant of
pound . - noun The Danish and Swedish pound, equal to 1,1023 pounds avoirdupois.
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Examples
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Voila, the Scots 'pound' is from the Icelandic pund, which is how it is widely pronounced in Scotland today.
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… How many times do I have to pund it into your thick skull that Bush vetoed most of the legislation that the dems proposed?
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If anyone is an intellectual lightweight, it is all of the non-journalist and pund-nuts on cnn and msnbc.
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Where are Charlie Bronze, Aflleckwasthebomb, and our other friends from across the pund?
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Free cat wif purchase ov 50 pund bag of kibble! miniminsmum says:
You don’t understand. This - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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The lemonade and pund cake both sound and look great.
Lavender: Pretty and Tasty Brilynn 2007
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The media pund its claim that some channels are highly nnovative.
sorry state of media 2007
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Particularly when we drop 500 pund bombs on them and burn them up with napalm and white phosphorous, and blow them away with 50 caliber at random checkpoints.
Think Progress » Rapid Response: Deconstructing the “National Strategy for Victory in Iraq” 2005
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"Pound" is from Anglo-Saxon pund and was brought to northern Europe by Roman traders.
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Naa, that ought to satisfy yo 'particular talk; yo' loike to taste th 'butter and cheese afore you buy, and if it's gooid, you say,' I'll tak 'a pund o' that; 'naa, then, come and try if th' Lord is gooid.
Little Abe Or, The Bishop of Berry Brow F. Jewell
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