Pound

Pound may refer to:

Units

• Pound (currency), a unit of currency in various countries
• Pound sign, £
• Pound sterling, the fundamental unit of currency in Great Britain
• Pound (force), a unit of force
• Pound (weight), various units of weight, usually consisting of 16 ounces
• Number sign, #, known in the U.S. as the pound sign
• Pound (rail), a unit of rail weight

People

• Cuthbert W. Pound (1864-1935), Chief Judge of the NY Court of Appeals 1932-1934
• Dick Pound, Canadian sports official
• Dudley Pound, British naval officer
• Ezra Pound, American modernist poet and critic
• Louise Pound, American educator
• Olivia Pound, American educator
• R. V. Pound, physicist, eponym of the Pound-Rebka experiment
• Roscoe Pound, American legal scholar
• Stephen Pound, British politician
• Stephen Bosworth Pound, American senator and judge
• Thaddeus C. Pound, Wisconsin politician

Places

United States

• Pound Ridge, New York
• Pound, Virginia
• Pound, Wisconsin
• Pound (town), Wisconsin

Elsewhere

• Pound Loney, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Other

• Pound (village), a high walled lockable structure featured in most medieval British villages and used as a place to keep stray cattle, sheep and pigs until claimed by their owners. Also used as temporary gaol for thieves, rustlers and vagabonds until dealt with by the local sherrif.
• Dog pound, a temporary home for stray, surrendered, or abandoned pet animals
• Buffalo pound (archaic), an enclosed space consisting of a chute and circular corral constructed for the purpose of capturing and killing large numbers of buffalo
• Canal pound, the stretch of level water impounded between two canal locks
• Pound cake, a type of dessert cake which usually weighs a pound, thats why its called a pound cake.
• Pound (greeting), a greeting in which two individuals touch fists
• Pound (networking), an open-source reverse proxy and load balancing program
• Tha Dogg Pound, a music group
• Pound, an American rock band
• Pound, a Canadian hip-hop magazine
• A sharp (♯), a musical symbol that resembles the pound sign or number sign (#)
• Pound (film), a 1970 film