To confine in apound; restrain.
To beat; break; bruise.
To hammer; plod.
A unit of weight; the avoirdupois pound is 16 ounces of 7, 000 grains; the troy pound, 12 ounces of 5, 760 grains.
An English money of account, worth about $ 4. 86; sign £.
A place in which stray animals are kept till redeemed.
Ten cents a pound. – The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois
Didn't I tell you we'd get our pound of flesh? – O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 by Various
A pound of sugar! – Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue Keeping Store by Laura Lee Hope