pound
pound is a valid 5-letter word worth 8 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
What does pound mean?
Move heavily or clumsily.
Shut up or confine in any enclosure or within any bounds or limits.
“The prisoners are safely pounded”
Place or shut up in a pound.
“pound the cows so they don't stray”
Strike or drive against with a heavy impact.
“pound on the door”
Partition off into compartments.
“The locks pound the water of the canal”
Break down and crush by beating, as with a pestle.
“pound the roots with a heavy flat stone”
Hit hard with the hand, fist, or some heavy instrument.
“the salesman pounded the door knocker”
Move rhythmically.
A nontechnical unit of force equal to the mass of 1 pound with an acceleration of free fall equal to 32 feet/sec/sec.
The basic unit of money in Great Britain and Northern Ireland; equal to 100 pence.
Formerly the basic unit of money in Ireland; equal to 100 pence.
16 ounces avoirdupois.
“he got a hernia when he tried to lift 100 pounds”
The basic unit of money in Lebanon; equal to 100 piasters.
The basic unit of money in the Sudan; equal to 100 piasters.
The basic unit of money in Egypt; equal to 100 piasters.
United States writer who lived in Europe; strongly influenced the development of modern literature (1885-1972).
A unit of apothecary weight equal to 12 ounces troy.
The basic unit of money in Cyprus; equal to 100 cents.
A symbol for a unit of currency (especially for the pound sterling in Great Britain).
The act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows).
“the pounding of feet on the hallway”
A public enclosure for stray or unlicensed dogs.
“unlicensed dogs will be taken to the pound”
The basic unit of money in Syria; equal to 100 piasters.