Pound
nounid
105206·updated May 16, 2026“Pound” is retired. It does not tag in any document, it is excluded from the anchor pack, and it does not hold its lemma — so another term can take it.
deprecated
the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows)
polysemous
Attested in
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Classifications
Entity Type
Unknown—glossary_import_default_pending_classifier
Sensitivity
unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
No variants recorded
This term has no surface-form variants in the lexicon yet, so it tags only its canonical form.
Framework definitions
- §1
- the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows)
- §2
- a public enclosure for stray or unlicensed dogs
- §3
- a symbol for a unit of currency (especially for the pound sterling in Great Britain)
- §4
- a nontechnical unit of force equal to the mass of 1 pound with an acceleration of free fall equal to 32 feet/sec/sec
- §5
- the basic unit of money in Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- §6
- the basic unit of money in Cyprus
- §7
- the basic unit of money in Egypt
- §8
- formerly the basic unit of money in Ireland
- §9
- the basic unit of money in Lebanon
- §10
- the basic unit of money in the Sudan
- §11
- the basic unit of money in Syria
- §12
- equivalent to 16 ounces avoirdupois
- §13
- a unit of apothecary weight equal to 12 ounces troy
Outgoing relationships
No outgoing triples
This term is not the subject of any RDF-style relationship yet.
Incoming relationships
No incoming triples
No other term currently asserts a relationship to this one.