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POUND
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Arabic
Pounding; Generous
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English
English : from Middle English p(o)und ‘enclosure (especially for confining animals)’; a topographic name for someone who lived near an enclosure in which animals were kept, or a metonymic occupational name for an official responsible for rounding up stray animals and placing them in a pound.Probably a translation of German Pfund or the North German cognate Pund.
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English
English : variant of Pound.
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North German, Danish, and Dutch
North German, Danish, and Dutch : from a shortened form of the personal name Billulf, composed of the elements bil ‘sword’, ‘axe’ + wulf ‘wolf’, or some other name with bil as the first element. For German, however, the most likely source is Pille, a French Huguenot name from the Dauphiné.English : variant spelling of Pill 2.French : habitational name from any of various minor places in northern France, so named from Old French pile, Latin pila, ‘pillar’, ‘column’. In Middle French pile denoted a trough used for crushing or pounding various materials, such as lime, and in some cases the surname may have arisen as a metonymic occupational name for someone engaged in such work.
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Indian, Sanskrit
To Pound; Cut into Pieces; Injuring
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English
English : occupational name for an official who was responsible for rounding up stray animals and placing them in a pound, from an agent derivative of Middle English pind(en) ‘to shut up or enclose’. Black and MacLysaght quote Woulfe’s opinion that in Ireland this is often a reduced form of Prendergast.
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English
English : variant of Pound.German (northern and central) : variant of Pundt. Alternatively it may be an altered spelling of Pfund.
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English (Nottingham)
English (Nottingham) : variant of Pound, with the addition of the habitational or agent suffix -er.Probably a translation of South German Pfunder, Pfünder, occupational names for a weigh master or wholesaler, variants of Pfund with the addition of the agent suffix -er.
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English (mainly Sussex and Kent)
English (mainly Sussex and Kent) : from Middle English punfold ‘pound’, Old English pundfald, applied as a topographic name for someone who lived by a pound for stray animals or a metonymic occupational name for someone in charge of such a pound; alternatively it may have been a habitational name from a minor place named with this word such as Poundfield in East Sussex.
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Hindu, Indian
Born to Enjoy with Happiness
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American, British, Christian, English, Latin, Spanish
Sorrows
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English
Variant spelling of English Aline, ALLINE means "little Eve."Â
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English
English : variant of Bissell.
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English (Essex and southeastern counties)
English (Essex and southeastern counties) : variant of the Lancashire name Fairclough, altered by folk etymology.
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Hindu, Indian, Traditional
Long Lived; Immortal
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Hindu
Female
Dutch
, of Mars.
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English
From the valley farm.
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English
From the Roman camp.
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n.
A kind of rich, sweet cake; -- so called from the ingredients being used by pounds, or in equal quantities.
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One who, or that which, pounds, as a stamp in an ore mill.
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The breaking of a public pound for releasing impounded animals.
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A rate or proportion estimated at a certain amount for each pound; poundage.
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An instrument used for pounding; a pestle.
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A person or thing, so called with reference to a certain number of pounds in value, weight, capacity, etc.; as, a cannon carrying a twelve-pound ball is called a twelve pounder.
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of Pound
v. i.
To make a jarring noise, as in running; as, the engine pounds.
n.
A sum deducted from a pound, or a certain sum paid for each pound; a commission.
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A pounded or pulverized substance.
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The keeper of a pound.
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Confinement of cattle, or other animals, in a public pound.
v. t.
To confine in, or as in, a pound; to impound.
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of Pound
v. t.
To comminute and pulverize by beating; to bruise or break into fine particles with a pestle or other heavy instrument; as, to pound spice or salt.
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A unit of force based upon the pound, foot, and second, being the force which, acting on a pound avoirdupois for one second, causes it to acquire by the of that time a velocity of one foot per second. It is about equal to the weight of half an ounce, and is 13,825 dynes.
n.
A subsidy of twelve pence in the pound, formerly granted to the crown on all goods exported or imported, and if by aliens, more.
v. t.
To collect, as poundage; to assess, or rate, by poundage.
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of Pound
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The sum allowed to a sheriff or other officer upon the amount realized by an execution; -- estimated in England, and formerly in the United States, at so much of the pound.