poud
English
Noun
poud (plural pouds)
- Alternative spelling of pood
- 1923, Nikolai Leskov, “Lady Macbeth of the Mzinsk District”, in Alfred Edward Chamot, transl., The Sentry and Other Stories, New York: Knopf, page 55:
- “She weighs eight pouds before dinner, but when she has eaten a pile of hay, there won’t be enough weights!”
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