n. A fundamental unit of weight or mass.n. A money of account, consisting of 20 shillings, or 240 pence, originally equivalent to a pound weight of silver (or of the alloy used).n. A balance.To weigh.To wager a pound on.n. An inclosure, maintained by authority, for confining cattle or other beasts when taken trespassing, or going at large in violation of law; a pinfold. Pounds were also used for the deposit of goods seized by distress.n. A pond.n. In a canal, the level portion between two locks.n. A pound-net; also, either one, inner or outer, of the compartments of such a net, or the inclosure of a gang of nets in which the fish are finally entrapped. See cut under pound-net.To shut up in a pound; impound; confine as in a pound; hence, to imprison; confine.Figuratively, to keep within narrow limits; cramp; restrain.To form into pounds, bins, or compartments.To beat; strike as with a heavy instrument and with repeated blows; pommel.To inflict; strike: as, to pound blows.To pulverize; break into fine pieces by striking with a heavy instrument; crush; reduce to powder.To strike repeated blows; hammer continuously.To walk with heavy steps; plod laboriously or heavily.n. A blow; a forcible thrust given to an object, thus generally occasioning a noise or report; also, the sound thus produced.n. A compartment in an abattoir in which animals can be kept until they are slaughtered.