English

Pronunciation

Noun

1. Plural of pound

Verb

1. third-person singular of pound

Units

• Pound (currency), a unit of currency in various countries
• Pound sign, £
• Pound (mass), various units of mass or weight
• Number sign, #, known in the U.S. as the pound sign
• Pound (rail), a unit of rail weight
• Pound-force, a unit of force

People

• 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

• 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
• 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, an American rock band
• A sharp (music sharp), a musical symbol that resembles the pound sign or number sign (#)
• Pound (film), a 1970 film