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Pound
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Pound may refer to:


Units

  • Pound (currency), a unit of currency in various countries (further disambiguation)
  • Pound sign, £
  • Pound-force, unit of force
  • Pound (mass), various units of mass or weight
  • Number sign (#), sometimes referred to as the "pound sign"
  • Pound (rail), a unit of size for railroad (train) rails


    People

  • Cuthbert W. Pound (1864–1935), Chief Judge of the NY Court of Appeals 1932-1934
  • 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


    Places


    =United States

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


    =Elsewhere

    =
  • Pound Loney, Belfast, Northern Ireland


    Other

  • Pound (village), a high-walled, lockable structure featured in most medieval British villages, used for temporary holding
  • Dog pound, a temporary home for pet animals
  • Buffalo pound (archaic), an enclosed space, for capturing and killing large numbers of buffalo
  • Canal pound, the stretch of level water impounded between two canal locks
  • Pound cake, a type of dessert cake
  • Pound (greeting), a greeting in which two individuals touch fists
  • Pound (networking), an open-source reverse proxy and load balancing program
  • Tha Dogg Pound, a music group
  • Pound (band), an American rock band
  • Pound (magazine), a Canadian hip-hop magazine
  • A Sharp (music) (), a musical symbol (from resemblance to # used as a pound sign)
  • Pound (film), a 1970 film


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