pound
/ˈpaʊ̯nd/ verb B2- To confine in, or as in, a pound; to impound.
He/she/it pounds · Past pounded · Past participle pounded · -ing form pounding
Verb forms
- Base form
- pound
- He/she/it
- pounds
- Past
- pounded
- Past participle
- pounded
- -ing form
- pounding
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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We performed the usual burial service, and he is at his rest, sewn up in his hammock with a thirty-six-pound shot at his head and his heels, off El Giglio island.
So they set to work in one of the big yellow rooms of the castle and worked for three days and four nights, hammering and twisting and bending and soldering and polishing and pounding at the legs and body and head of the Tin Woodman, until at last he was straightened out into his old form, and his joints worked as well as ever.
Led on by some rudimentary aspirations towards right, and encouraged by the judicious stimulation of an occasional ten-pound note sent to him by devious methods, he has once or twice given me advance information which has been of value—that highest value which anticipates and prevents rather than avenges crime.
They were paying a pound a day each—fourteen pounds a week, and this is the slack season.
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