1. to strike repeatedly with great force, as with an instrument, the fist, heavy missiles, etc.
2. to produce or effect by striking or thumping, or in a manner resembling this (often followed by out): to pound out a tune on the piano.
3. to force (a way) by battering; batter (often followed by down): He pounded his way through the mob. He pounded the door down.
4. to crush into a powder or paste by beating repeatedly.

5. to strike heavy blows repeatedly: to pound on a door.
6. to beat or throb violently, as the heart.
7. to give forth a thumping sound: The drums pounded loudly.
8. to walk or go with heavy steps; move along with force or vigor.

9. the act of pounding.
10. a heavy or forcible blow.
11. a thump.

1. a unit of weight and of mass, varying in different periods and countries.
• (in English-speaking countries) an avoirdupois unit of weight equal to 7000 grains, divided into 16 ounces (0.453 kilogram), used for ordinary commerce. Abbreviations: lb., lb. av.
• a troy unit of weight, in the U.S. and formerly in Britain, equal to 5760 grains, divided into 12 ounces (0.373 kilogram), used for gold, silver, and other precious metals. Abbreviation: lb. t.
• (in the United States) an apothecaries' unit of weight equal to 5760 grains, divided into 12 ounces (0.373 kilogram). Abbreviation: lb. ap.
3. a paper money, nickel-brass coin, and monetary unit of the United Kingdom formerly equal to 20 shillings or 240 pence: equal to 100 new pence after decimalization in Feb. 1971. Abbreviation: L; Symbol: £
4. any of the monetary units of various countries, as Egypt, Lebanon, Sudan, Syria, and of certain Commonwealth of Nations countries.
5. a monetary unit of Ireland until the euro was adopted, equal to 100 pence.
6. a monetary unit of Cyprus until the euro was adopted, equal to 100 cents.
7. a former Scottish money of account, originally equal to the pound sterling but equal to only a twelfth of the pound sterling at the union of the crowns of England and Scotland in 1603.
8. (formerly) the Turkish lira.
9. a former monetary unit of Israel, Libya, and Nigeria.
10. a meter reading in units of five decibels: used as a measure of loudness for incoming signals.

1. an enclosure maintained by local government for confining stray or homeless animals: dog pound.
2. an enclosure for sheltering, keeping, or confining livestock, or for trapping wild animals.
3. an enclosure or trap for fish.
4. a place of confinement or imprisonment.
5. a place or area where cars or other vehicles are impounded, as those towed away for being illegally parked: I not only had to go all the way across town to the pound, but had to pay a killer fine.
6. reach (def. 26).

7. to shut up in or as in a pound; impound; imprison.

1. U.S. poet.
2. U.S. scholar and linguist.
3. U.S. legal scholar and writer.

1. to strike heavily and often
2. to beat to a pulp; pulverize
3. to instil by constant drilling
4. to produce, as by typing heavily
5. to walk (the pavement, street, etc) repeatedly
6. to throb heavily

7. a heavy blow; thump
8. the act of pounding

1. an enclosure, esp one maintained by a public authority, for keeping officially removed vehicles or distrained goods or animals, esp stray dogs
2. a place where people are confined
• a trap for animals
• a trap or keepnet for fish

4. to confine in or as if in a pound; impound, imprison, or restrain

1. an avoirdupois unit of weight that is divided into 16 ounces and is equal to 0.453 592 kilograms
2. a troy unit of weight divided into 12 ounces equal to 0.373 242 kilograms
3. an apothecaries' unit of weight, used in the US, that is divided into 5760 grains and is equal to one pound troy
4. a unit of force equal to the mass of 1 pound avoirdupois where the acceleration of free fall is 32.174 feet per second per second
• the standard monetary unit of the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man, and various UK overseas territories, divided into 100 pence
• (as modifier)
6. (the standard monetary unit of the following countries)
• Cyprus: divided into 100 cents
• Egypt: divided into 100 piastres
• Lebanon: divided into 100 piastres
• South Sudan: divided into 100 piastres
• Syria: divided into 100 piastres
7. another name for lira (def. 2)
8. a former Scottish monetary unit originally worth an English pound but later declining in value to 1 shilling 8 pence
9. the former standard monetary unit of the Republic of Ireland, divided into 100 pence; replaced by the euro in 2002
10. a former monetary unit of the Sudan replaced by the dinar in 1992

1. Ezra (Loomis). 1885–1972, US poet, translator, and critic, living in Europe. Indicted for treason by the US government (1945) for pro-Fascist broadcasts during World War II, he was committed to a mental hospital until 1958. He was a founder of imagism and championed the early work of such writers as T. S. Eliot, Joyce, and Hemingway. His life work, the Cantos (1925–70), is an unfinished sequence of poems, which incorporates mythological and historical materials in several languages as well as political, economic, and autobiographical elements

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