Pound

Pound may refer to:

Units

• Pound (currency) (disambiguation page), a unit of currency in various countries
  • Pound symbol, ₤, pound sign
• Pound (mass), various units of mass or weight(actually measured in Poundals)
  • The number sign, #, known in the US as a 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

Other

• Tha Dogg Pound, a music group
• Canal pound, the stretch of level water impounded between two canal locks
• A pound (greeting) is a greeting in which two individuals touch fists
• Pound (networking), an open-source reverse proxy and load balancing program
• Dog pound, a term referring to temporary homes for stray, surrendered, or abandoned pet animals
• Buffalo pound, (archaic) an enclosed space consisting of a shute and circular corral constructed for the purpose of capturing and killing large numbers of buffalo.
• Pound as a verb means to grind with or as with a mortar and pestle, to strike or hit something (pound the keys of a typewriter, pound the table).
• Pound is also sometimes used as slang for sexual intercourse.
• Pound, a swedish rock band

Places

United States

• Pound Ridge, New York
• Pound, Virginia
• Pound, Wisconsin
• Pound (town), Wisconsin

Elsewhere

• Pound Loney, Belfast, Northern Ireland

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