pound

Language: EN · Kind: word · Transcription: [/ˈpaʊ̯nd/]

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1. pound (noun) — sense 1

Definition: A place for the detention of stray or wandering animals.

Example: Mr. Sarnoff also sent to the pound 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.

2. pound (noun) — sense 2

Definition: The people who work for the pound.

Example: (Police officer to a dog owner) "He'd better stay calm or I'll have the pound come and get him."

3. pound (noun) — sense 3

Definition: A place for the detention of automobiles that have been illegally parked, abandoned, etc.

Example: 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 damn pound!

4. pound (verb) — sense 4

Definition: To confine in, or as in, a pound; to impound.

Example: When I short haue shorne my sowce face
& swigg’d my horny barrell,
In an oaken Inne I pound my skin
as a suite of guilt apparrell

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