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Pound
Pound may refer to:
Units
- Pound (currency), a unit of currency in various countries
- Pound sign, '''£'''
- Pound sterling, the fundamental unit of currency in Great Britain
- Pound-force| Pound (force), a unit of force
- Pound (mass), various units of mass, usually consisting of 16 ounces
- Number sign, '''#''', known in the U.S. as the pound sign
- Pound (rail), a unit of rail weight
People
- Cuthbert W. Pound (1864-1935), Chief Judge of the NY Court of Appeals 1932-1934
- Dick Pound, Canadian sports official
- Dudley Pound, British naval officer
- Ezra Pound, American modernist poet and critic
- Louise Pound, American educator
- Olivia Pound, American educator
- R. V. Pound, physicist, eponym of the Pound-Rebka experiment
- Roscoe Pound, American legal scholar
- Stephen Pound, British politician
- Stephen Bosworth Pound, American senator and judge
- Thaddeus C. Pound, Wisconsin politician
Places
United States
- Pound Ridge, New York
- Pound, Virginia
- Pound, Wisconsin
- Pound (town), Wisconsin
Elsewhere
- Pound Loney, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Other
- Pound (village), a high walled lockable structure featured in most medieval British villages and used as a place to keep stray cattle, sheep and pigs until claimed by their owners. Also used as temporary gaol for thieves, rustlers and vagabonds until dealt with by the local sherrif.
- Dog pound, a temporary home for stray, surrendered, or abandoned pet animals
- Buffalo pound (archaic), an enclosed space consisting of a chute and circular corral constructed for the purpose of capturing and killing large numbers of buffalo
- Canal pound, the stretch of level water impounded between two canal locks
- Pound cake, a type of dessert cake which usually weighs a pound, thats why its called a pound cake.
- Pound (greeting), a greeting in which two individuals touch fists
- Pound (networking), an open-source reverse proxy and load balancing program
- Tha Dogg Pound, a music group
- Pound (band)|Pound, an American rock band
- ''Pound (magazine)|Pound,'' a Canadian hip-hop magazine
- A Sharp (music)|sharp (), a musical symbol that resembles the pound sign or number sign (#)
- Pound (film), a 1970 film
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