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Pound

Pound meaning

A unit of weight in various measurement systems. | A unit of weight in various measurement systems. | Ellipsis of pound weight.

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See, for example: citation For example, abbreviating "pound-force-foot" to simply "pound-foot" (in this case, it would be implicit that the "pound" is pound-force and not pound-mass ).

He was selling shoulder chops at nine pence per pound, leg mutton at two shillings a pound, roasting beef from six pence per pound, prime pork for nine pence a pound, pickling pork at three pence and shoulder mutton from one shilling and sixpence.

Later the avoirdupois ounce was standardised as 1 16 of a pound, but the troy ounce, which is 1 12 of a troy pound (a troy pound is lighter than an avoirdupois pound ), is still used for measuring precious metals.

On Wednesday a poor rate of 6d. in the pound was allowed for that part of the parish of St. Martin which is in the Liberty of Peterborough; also a Liberty-rate of 2d. in the pound, and a sanitary-rate of 1d. in the pound.

Pound/Joyce: The Letters of Ezra Pound to James Joyce, with Pound's Essays on Joyce.

A combination of two fresh 1.25-pound fillets ready to cook, with pin bones thoughtfully removed, and a one-pound fresh venison steak from Highland Game Farm in Germantown, along with horseradish sauce and spice seasoning, is $140.

Alexander Volkanovski lost the pound-for-pound battle – so why is he still No 1?

Although a troy ounce does weigh more than an avoirdupois ounce, it’s not one and a third avoirdupois ounces because the troy pound is lighter than the avoirdupois pound.

And in many minds - not least his own - the greatest pound-for-pound boxer of his generation.

Bianchetto truffles (or white truffles) can run up to $1,000 per pound, while Winter Black Truffles can get up to $2,000 a pound.

For Chiefs, there is still much work to do to get to the level where they can compete pound for pound with a team like Sundowns.

He also has been in the conversation for top current pound-for-pound fighter, and Volkanovski is second in the UFC’s official rankings to Jon Jones.

His clash with Lomachenko, the former pound-for-pound number one, will no doubt be his toughest test to date.

In my eyes, a win over Errol Spence Jr would just put me as undisputed, pound-for-pound No 1 in everybody’s eyes.

Jacob won the 2A 160-pound Championship, his second state title, and Jeremiah won the 2A 152-pound Championship, his fourth state title.

Mayweather then began to let his famously quick hands fly a bit more in the second and third round, with Chalmers unable to go on the offence due to the former pound-for-pound king's ringwork.

Ortiz, a seventh grader at Jerling Junior High School, said he fights in the Bantam division and is the second ranked boxer in the country in the 85-pound category and fourth ranked boxer in the 90-pound category.

Pound for pound, he might not even be the more talented quarterback.

Pound for pound, “Quantumania” probably has the least to offer in terms of moving things forward, mostly because again, the stakes feel pretty low here but at the same time, at least it’s not rehashing the first two films.

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