2025 June 21, Thomas Bordeaux, Natasha Bertrand and Zachary Cohen, “US moves B-2 bombers as Trump weighs Iran options”, inCNN[1]:
B-2 bombers are the only plane capable of carrying the Massive Ordinance Penetrator, which experts have highlighted as the only type of bomb potentially capable of destroying Iran’s underground Fordow nuclear facility. Each B-2 bomber is able to carry two of these “bunker buster” bombs, which weigh an impressive 30,000pounds each.
2010 July 28, Rachel Williams, “Mothers who lose weight before further pregnancy ‘reduce risks’”, inThe Guardian[2]:
Research shows that retaining even one or twopounds after giving birth can make problems more likely in a subsequent pregnancy, experts said, with women who have several children facing a "slippery slope" if they continue to gain weight each time.
A unit ofmass equal to 12troy ounces (≈ 373.242 g). Today, this is a common unit ofmass when measuring precious metals, and is little used elsewhere.
The unit of currency used in the United Kingdom and itsdependencies. It is divided into 100pence. Symbol£.
1860,George Eliot, chapter 6, inThe Mill on the Floss, book 5:
"Only a hundred and ninety-threepound," said Mr. Tulliver. "You've brought less o' late; but young fellows like to have their own way with their money. Though I didn't do as I liked before I was of age." He spoke with rather timid discontent.
2012 November 11, Carole Cadwalladr, “Do online courses spell the end for the traditional university?”, inThe Observer[3]:
For students in developing countries who can't get it any other way, or for students in the first world, who can but may choose not to. Pay thousands ofpounds a year for your education? Or get it free online?
Any of various units ofcurrency used in Egypt, Lebanon, Sudan, and Syria, and formerly in the Republic of Ireland, Cyprus, Nigeria, Israel, and South Africa.
He glanced back through what he had read and, while feeling his water flow quietly, he envied kindly Mr Beaufoy who had written it and received payment of threepounds, thirteen and six.
He knocked out cans of warm cola at twopound fifty a time.
(informal) Various non-English units of currency notofficially called pounds.
1878,w:Henry Hozier,The Russo-Turkish War: Including an Account of the Rise and Decline of the Ottoman Power and the History of the Eastern Question[4], page61:
In the report of the Special Budget Commission certifying the estimates for 1874-75, it was announced on authority that the total amount of this debt did not exceed 14,725,000 Turkishpounds(liras), or £13,000,000, while the Special Commission for the verification of the budget for 1875-76 returned the total amount at 10,309,521 Turkishpounds(liras), or £8,935,000.
Internationally, the "pound" has most commonly referred to the UK pound, £, (pound sterling). The other currencies were usually distinguished in some way, e.g., the "Irish pound" or the "punt".
In the vicinity of each other country calling its currency the pound among English speakers the local currency would be the "pound", with all others distinguished, e.g., the "British pound", the "Egyptian pound" etc.
The general plural of "pound" has usually been "pounds" (at least since Chaucer), but the continuing use of the Old English genitive or neuter "pound" as the plural after numerals (for both currency and weight) is common in some regions. It can be considered correct, or colloquial, depending on region.
1997 February 24, N. R. Kleinfield, “Robert Sarnoff, 78, RCA Chairman, Dies”, inThe New York Times[5],→ISSN:
Mr. Sarnoff also sent to thepound one of the best-known dogs in the world. Nipper, the black-and-white terrier usually depicted peering with head cocked into the horn of a Victrola, listening for “His Master's Voice,” was de-emphasized as a corporate symbol.
Inspector Douglas Todd: Where did you get a truckload of cigarettes from anyway? / Detective Axel Foley: From the Dearborn Hijacking. / Todd: The Dearborn Hijacking? That bust went down weeks ago. That load's supposed to be in the damnpound!
Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into thepound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season.
kind of fishing net, having a large enclosure with a narrow entrance
division inside a fishing stage where cod is cured
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When I short haue shorne my sowce face & swigg’d my horny barrell, In an oaken Inne Ipound my skin as a suite of guilt apparrell
1644,John Milton,Areopagitica; A speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England:
And he who were pleasantly disposed, could not well avoid to liken it to the exploit of that gallant man, who thought topound up the crows by shutting his park gate.
She had Lord James' collar in one big fist and shepounded the table with the other and talked a blue streak. Nobody could make out plain what she said, for she was mainly jabbering Swede lingo, but there was English enough, of a kind, to give us some idee.
1960 December, “Talking of Trains: The railways and the Devon floods”, inTrains Illustrated, page709:
[...] and on the Saturday heavy seaspounded the W.R. on its exposed coastal stretch between Dawlish and Teignmouth, loosening the ballast and forcing trains to proceed with extreme caution.
1887,Indian Cookery "Local" for Young Housekeepers: Second Edition, page67:
Pound an onion, warm a spoonful of ghee and throw in the onion, brown it slightly, add your curry stuff, brown this till it smells pleasantly,[…]
1976,Alex Haley, chapter 1, inRoots: The Saga of an American Family:
It was the hour before the first crowing of the cocks, and along with Nyo Boto and Grandma Yaisa's clattering, the first sound the child heard was the muted, rhythmic bombpabombpabomp of wooden pestles as the other women of the villagepounded couscous grain in their mortars, preparing the traditional breakfast of porridge that was cooked in earthen pots over a fire built among three rocks.
As I tiptoed past the sleeping dog, my heart waspounding but I remained silent.
My head waspounding.
1936,Ernest Hemingway,The Short, Happy Life of Francis Macomber:
It was now about three o’clock in the morning and Francis Macomber, who had been asleep a little while after he had stopped thinking about the lion, wakened and then slept again, woke suddenly, frightened in a dream of the bloody-headed lion standing over him, and listening while his heartpounded, he realized that his wife was not in the other cot in the tent.
Wepounded along, stopped, landed soldiers; went on, landed custom–house clerks to levy toll in what looked like a God–forsaken wilderness, with a tin shed and a flag–pole lost in it; landed more soldiers—to take care of the custom–house clerks, presumably.
The declension found below is theoretical, in the sense that as pound isn't a very common word compared tosterlin, and isn't considered an "official" word found in the TDK dictionary, its declension remains to be seen.
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