Pound is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for POUND in dictionary:

VERB:
• to strike heavily and repeatedly
• strike or hit heavily and repeatedly
• beat or throb with a strong regular rhythm
• walk or run with heavy steps
• crush or grind (something) into a powder or paste
• defeat (an opponent) in a resounding way
• shut (an animal) in a pound.
• 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.
• To make a jarring noise, as in running; as, the engine pounds.
• To confine in, or as in, a pound; to impound.
• hit hard with the hand, fist, or some heavy instrument
• strike or drive against with a heavy impact
• move heavily or clumsily
• move rhythmically
• partition off into compartments
• shut up or confine in any enclosure or within any bounds or limits
• place or shut up in a pound
• break down and crush by beating, as with a pestle
• hit heavily and repeatedly
NOUN:
• a unit of weight equal to 16 oz. avoirdupois (0.4536 kg), or 12 oz. troy (0.3732 kg).
• the basic monetary unit of the UK, equal to 100 pence.
• the basic monetary unit of several Middle Eastern countries, equal to 100 piastres.
• the former basic monetary unit of Cyprus, equal to 100 cents.
• the basic monetary unit of Sudan.
• a place where stray animals, especially dogs, may be officially taken and kept until claimed by their owners.
• a place where illegally parked motor vehicles removed by the police are kept until their owners pay a fine in order to reclaim them.
• a place of confinement; a trap or prison.
• monetary unit of Britain and some 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 level stretch in a canal between locks.
• A kind of net, having a large inclosure with a narrow entrance into which fish are directed by wings spreading outward.
• 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.
• 16 ounces avoirdupois
• the basic unit of money in Great Britain and Northern Ireland; equal to 100 pence
• a unit of apothecary weight equal to 12 ounces troy
• the basic unit of money in Syria; equal to 100 piasters
• the basic unit of money in the Sudan; equal to 100 piasters
• the basic unit of money in Lebanon; equal to 100 piasters
• formerly the basic unit of money in Ireland; equal to 100 pence
• the basic unit of money in Egypt; equal to 100 piasters
• the basic unit of money in Cyprus; equal to 100 cents
• a nontechnical unit of force equal to the mass of 1 pound with an acceleration of free fall equal to 32 feet/sec/sec
• United States writer who lived in Europe; strongly influenced the development of modern literature (1885-1972)
• a symbol for a unit of currency (especially for the pound sterling in Great Britain)
• a public enclosure for stray or unlicensed dogs
• the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows)

Words related to POUND

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Words that contain POUND

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How to use POUND in a sentence

• Then his pulses gave a leap and the blood began to pound in his ears and he thought he was back in the base hospital again and the fever was playing tricks on him.
• Once when Peter stole some sugar and flour, that he and his sister might have a pound cake, Joe caught him.
• And the lesson from Olivet which comes to us here is that every one of us has a talent, or a pound, that our Master Jesus, has given us, and which he expects us to use for him.
• It is loud and resembles precisely the sound of a six pound piece of ordnance at the distance of three miles.
• The village pound was the consequence of the perpetual straying of animals, and later on the vicar sometimes kept it.
• He felt tense, and the strain made his heart pound.
• When he left, Paul locked the door, drew out the five pound note which he carefully examined to convince himself that it was genuine.
• The delivery was to be made free of all charges, except the export duty of one eighth of one cent per pound.
• When cool add the juice of two lemons and the grated rind of one, two tablespoonfuls of brandy and eight or ten bitter almonds chopped fine to one pound of carrot.
• Then add a quarter of a pound of butter rolled in flour, and a quarter of a glass of wine.
• At London of the silver resting, to wit, the 31 crounes and 5 pound sterl.
• The easiest way to do this is to tie the oatmeal in a coarse cloth and pound it with a wooden mallet.
• Vegetables were scarce, potatoes selling from forty to sixty cents per pound.
• Onions and potatoes sold for forty cents per pound.
• One of her difficulties lies in her inability to remember that in English money it makes a difference where you place a figure, whether, in the pound, shilling, or pence column.
• The current price for flour and beans was a dollar and a half a pound, but the difficulty was to find a seller.
• Thus, the cost of an article being in New York two shillings and four pence a pound, would be in Connecticut one shilling and nine pence.

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