- Pound
Pound may refer to:
Units
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Pound (currency) , a unit of currency in various countries
*Pound sign , £
*Pound sterling , the fundamental unit of currency in Great Britain
* Pound (force), a unit of force
*Pound (mass) , various units of mass
*Number sign , #, known in the U.S. as the pound sign
*Pound (rail) , a unit of rail weightPeople
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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 thePound-Rebka experiment
*Roscoe Pound , American legal scholar
*Stephen Pound , British politician
*Stephen Bosworth Pound , American senator and judge
*Thaddeus C. Pound , Wisconsin politicianPlaces
United States
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Pound Ridge, New York
*Pound, Virginia
*Pound, Wisconsin
*Pound (town), Wisconsin Elsewhere
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Pound Loney , Belfast, Northern IrelandOther
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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, an American rock band
* "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
*Pound shop , a shop usually down a high street where everything costs a pound in the shop, thats why its called a pound shop.
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