pound
/ˈpaʊ̯nd/ sustantivo C2En español: perrera, depósito, depósito municipal, corralón
- A place for the detention of stray or wandering animals.
- The people who work for the pound.
- A section of a canal between two adjacent locks.
- A kind of fishing net, having a large enclosure with a narrow entrance into which fish are directed by wings spreading outward.
- A division inside a fishing stage where cod is cured in salt brine.
Plural pounds
Phrasal verbs y expresiones
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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.
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.
“Why, I have lost four pound a week.”
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