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pound
noun as in sixteen ounces/.454 kilograms of weight
Strong matches
verb as in crush; beat rhythmically
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Example Sentences
Someone slipped me something while I was making Pound, and I had two choices—go to the hospital, or keep working.
There only be nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety pound here.
The news reports of the speech quoted that line, so it became the pound cake speech.
A leopard seal is “about a thousand-pound animal with lots of teeth,” Perryman explains.
Today, ivory prices are at record highs, having tripled since that 2008 auction, up to around $1,500 a pound.
At this period it brought enormous prices, the finest selling at from fifteen to eighteen shillings per pound.
Body o' me, here's the remainder of seven pound since yesterday was seven-night!
The duty on importation had been only twopence per pound, a moderate sum in view of the prices realized by the sale of it.
In fact, I'm nothing but a quarter of a pound of 'plain,' and the price isn't worth mentioning.
Sometimes a piece weighing nearly a pound is found, and a weight of even ten pounds is recorded.
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On this page you'll find 158 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to pound, such as: avoirdupois, pint, and troy.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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