Meaning

noun 16 ounces avoirdupois

noun the basic unit of money in Great Britain and Northern Ireland; equal to 100 pence

noun a unit of apothecary weight equal to 12 ounces troy

originFrom Middle English pound, from Old English pund (“a pound, weight”), from Proto-West Germanic *pund, from Proto-Germanic *pundą (“pound, weight”), an early borrowing from Latin pondō (“by weight”), ablative form of pondus (“weight”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pend- (“to pull, stretch”). Cognate with Dutch pond, German Pfund, Danish, Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and…

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