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pound
to pound, to beat or knock. Who's that pounds at the door so? Who's that knocks at the door? Glouc. ...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
A prison. Dr. Grey, in his notes on Hudibras, explains it to allude to one Doctor Lob, a dissenting preacher, who used to hold forth when conventicles were prohibited, and had made himself a retreat by means of a trap door at the bottom of his pulpit. Once being pursued by the officers of justice, they followed him through divers subterraneous passages, till they got into a dark cell, from whence they could not find their way out, but calling to some of their companions, swore they had got into Lob's Pound.
to pound, to beat or knock. Who's that pounds at the door so? Who's that knocks at the door? Glouc. ...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose