pound
pound is a 5-letter English word with 33 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To strike repeatedly with some heavy instrument; to beat. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- transitive verb. To strike repeatedly with some heavy instrument; to beat.
- transitive verb. 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.
- intransitive verb. To strike heavy blows; to beat.
- intransitive verb. To make a jarring noise, as in running; as, the engine pounds.
- noun. 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.
- noun. A level stretch in a canal between locks.
- noun. A kind of net, having a large inclosure with a narrow entrance into which fish are directed by wings spreading outward.
- transitive verb. To confine in, or as in, a pound; to impound.
- plural. of Pound
- noun. A certain specified weight; especially, a legal standard consisting of an established number of ounces.
- noun. 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.
- noun. the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows)
"the sudden hammer of fists caught him off guard"
"the pounding of feet on the hallway"
- noun. a public enclosure for stray or unlicensed dogs
"unlicensed dogs will be taken to the pound"
- noun. a symbol for a unit of currency (especially for the pound sterling in Great Britain)
- noun. United States writer who lived in Europe; strongly influenced the development of modern literature (1885-1972)
- noun. a nontechnical unit of force equal to the mass of 1 pound with an acceleration of free fall equal to 32 feet/sec/sec
- noun. the basic unit of money in Great Britain and Northern Ireland; equal to 100 pence
- noun. the basic unit of money in Cyprus; equal to 100 cents
- noun. the basic unit of money in Egypt; equal to 100 piasters
- noun. formerly the basic unit of money in Ireland; equal to 100 pence
- noun. the basic unit of money in Lebanon; equal to 100 piasters
- noun. the basic unit of money in the Sudan; equal to 100 piasters
- noun. the basic unit of money in Syria; equal to 100 piasters
- noun. 16 ounces avoirdupois
"he got a hernia when he tried to lift 100 pounds"
- noun. a unit of apothecary weight equal to 12 ounces troy
- verb. break down and crush by beating, as with a pestle
"pound the roots with a heavy flat stone"
- verb. place or shut up in a pound
"pound the cows so they don't stray"
- verb. shut up or confine in any enclosure or within any bounds or limits
"The prisoners are safely pounded"
- verb. hit hard with the hand, fist, or some heavy instrument
"the salesman pounded the door knocker"
"a bible-thumping Southern Baptist"
- verb. partition off into compartments
"The locks pound the water of the canal"
- verb. strike or drive against with a heavy impact
"ram the gate with a sledgehammer"
"pound on the door"
- verb. move rhythmically
"Her heart was beating fast"
- verb. move heavily or clumsily
"The heavy man lumbered across the room"
Synonyms
hammer, hammering, pounding, quid, punt, lb, impound, poke, thump, ram, beat, lumber
Common word forms
pounds, poundal, pounded, pounder, pounding, poundless
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