Pound Definition
- To travel the streets on foot, especially in search of work.
- to flatten, smooth, etc. by pounding
- to walk the streets, as in looking for work
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Pound
Origin of Pound
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From an alteration of earlier poun, pown, from Middle English pounen, from Old English pÅ«nian (“to pound, beat, bray, bruise, crush"), from Proto-Germanic *pÅ«nōnÄ… (“to break to pieces, pulverise"). Related to Saterland Frisian Pün (“debris, fragments"), Dutch puin (“debris, fragments, rubbish"), Low German pun (“fragments"). Perhaps influenced by Etymology 2 Middle English *pound, pond, from Old English *pund, pynd, in relation to the hollow mortar for pounding with the pestle.
From Wiktionary
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From Middle English, from Old English pund (“a pound, weight"), from Proto-Germanic *pundÄ… (“pound, weight"), an early borrowing from Latin pondō (“by weight"), ablative form of pondus (“weight"), from Proto-Indo-European *pend-, *spend- (“to pull, stretch"). Cognate with Dutch pond, German Pfund, Swedish pund.
From Wiktionary
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From Middle English *pound, pond, from Old English *pund (“an inclosure"), attested by pyndan (“to enclose, shut up, dam, impound"). Compare also Old English pynd (“a cistern, lake").
From Wiktionary
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Middle English from Old English pund from West Germanic punda- from Latin (lībra) pondō (a pound) by weight (s)pen- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Middle English from Old English pund- enclosure (as in pundfall pen)
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Middle English pounden alteration of pounen from Old English pūnian
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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