to pound, to beat or knock. Who's that pounds at the door so? Who's that knocks at the door? Glouc.
·pl of Pound. II. Pound ·noun A level stretch in a canal between locks. III. Pound ·vi To strike h...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
1) A weight. Heb. maneh, equal to 100 shekels (1 Kings 10:17; Ezra 2:69; Neh. 7:71, 72). Gr. litra, ...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
1) To beat. How the milling cove pounded the cull for being nuts on his blowen; how the boxer beat t...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
A lagoon, or space of water, surrounded by reefs and shoals, wherein fish are kept, as at Bermuda. ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
A weight. [See Weights And Measures AND Measures]• • A sum of money put in the Old Testament, (1 Ki...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
·add. ·- A small standard weight used in assaying bullion, ·etc., sometimes equaling 0.5 gram, but v...
·- A unit of energy, or work, being equal to the work done in raising one pound avoirdupois against ...
·noun The breaking of a public pound for releasing impounded animals. ...
East out of Little Tower Hill near the Victualling Office (Hatton, 1708), Site now covered by the Ro...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
A prison. Dr. Grey, in his notes on Hudibras, explains it to allude to one Doctor Lob, a dissenting ...
The weight formerly used in the navy, by which the purser retained an eighth for waste, and the men ...
A sobriquet applied to the purser. ...
Saving in small matters, and extravagant in great. ...
A phrase demanding assistance in man-weight; alluding to the daily allowance of beef. ...