pounds in English

noun
1
a unit of weight in general use equal to 16 oz. avoirdupois (0.4536 kg).
A short ton is the standard U.S. ton of 2,000 pounds and measures weight.
2
a place where stray animals, especially dogs, may be officially taken and kept until claimed by their owners or otherwise disposed of.
Aided by a donkey sanctuary welfare officer, he followed a trail that led him to animal pounds and fields in remote areas in the black of night.
verb
1
strike or hit heavily and repeatedly.
Patrick pounded the couch with his fists
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2
shut (an animal) in a pound.

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1. Adventurer 80GS: dry weight, 1,752 pounds + 11 gallons fresh, 91.7 pounds + 4 gallon full hot water heater, 33.4 pounds + 20-pound full propane tank, 20 pounds + battery, 65 pounds + stuff, 500 pounds = 2,462.1 pounds

2. They cost nine pounds new, three pounds secondhand.

3. The coal is six pounds underweight / underweight by six pounds.

4. Just get five pounds.

5. Mountain lions weigh 90 to 160 pounds, while Bobcats weigh 20 to 30 pounds

6. The duck dressed five pounds.

7. Moira weighs about 130 pounds .

8. The potato weighs two pounds.

9. Five pounds are still owing.

10. He is two pounds underweight.

11. He is ten pounds underweight.

12. The unit of power, called Conventionally a horse-power, is 550 foot-pounds per second, or 33,000 foot-pounds per minute, or 1,980,000 foot-pounds per hour.

13. The count's demesne is worth 14 pounds, that of his knights 7 pounds and 7 shillings.

14. Tickets cost from pounds 7 for juniors, pounds 10 for seniors, students or Ambulant disabled and pounds 15 for adults, and will be available online from www.wrexhamafc

15. He is several pounds underweight.

16. Eight analysts surveyed Friday had predicted pretax profit of between 130 million pounds and 127 million pounds.

17. County court Amercements were thirty pounds of tobacco; those of the provincial court were fifty pounds.

18. For instance, while a Bushel of spinach weighs 20 pounds, a Bushel of tomatoes is 53 pounds.

19. In 2018 we bought nearly 5.5 million pounds of Cilantro, about 1.7 million pounds of it organic.

20. Wisden tribute for SACHIN WISDEN Cricketers' Almanack 2012 is available in bookshops now in hardback (price pounds 50), soft cover (pounds 50) and large format (pounds 60) editions.

21. Your heart pounds inside your chest?

22. 27 The meat weights 2 pounds.

23. Adult Beavers typically weigh 45 to 60 pounds, but have been known to grow to 100 pounds

24. Lloyds pretax profit dropped 28 percent to 2 million pounds from 3 million pounds a year earlier.

25. Net gilt sales were 245 million pounds in November, down from 8 billion pounds a month earlier.

26. A hundred pounds per square inch.

27. Beamin), Pounds in the Air (feat

28. Her weight was under ninety pounds.

29. Armadillos weigh 8 to 17 pounds

30. He weighed 10 pounds at birth.

31. That is not 800 pounds, knucklehead.

32. Persimmon had a pre-tax profit of 25 million pounds on sales of 206 million pounds in 19

33. Since 1975 the consumption of beef has decreased from 89 pounds per capita to 5 pounds per capita.

34. For each 100 pounds of fiber produced by the cotton plant, it also produces about 162 pounds of Cottonseed.

35. I weigh a-hundred-sixty-four pounds.

36. One kilogram is 2 1 b ( pounds ).

37. 20 I'd cost him nineteen thousand pounds.

38. I sprang 400 pounds for her overcoat.

39. A Bushel of shelled corn weighs 56 pounds, but a Bushel of corn still on the ear weighs 70 pounds

40. Arithmetically: Think this way: if 5 dogs ate 10 pounds, each dog ate 2 pounds, and 40 / 2 = 20 dogs

41. To Marke Annullen Nynty pounds of Tobacco

42. Males weigh between 70 and 84 pounds.

43. He spent eighty pounds on a hat.

44. All that fuss over a few pounds!

45. Her backpack must have weighed twenty pounds.

46. He donated thousands of pounds to charity.

47. Plastic Bathtubs can weigh as little as 50 pounds empty, while a cast-iron bathtub can top 1,000 pounds

48. Leisure Time 45425A Brominating Tablets, 1.5 Pounds

49. Bantamweight DIVISION (UP TO 135 POUNDS) 1

50. Like eating two pounds of rock salt.