pood
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of pood
First recorded in 1545–55; from Russian pud, from Low German or Old Norse pund “pound (unit of weight and measure)”; see pound 2
Example Sentences
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It was not a pood simile, for it appeared last week that even if they should be proscribed, the members of the Supreme Court intended to keep their heads.
From Time Magazine Archive
We have a Russian saying that goes something like this: to achieve something difficult it is necessary to eat a pood* of salt.
From Time Magazine Archive
I met a carrier who was conveying goods from Tumen to Tomsk, a distance of about one thousand five hundred versts, for two and a half roubles per pood!
From The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 by Walsh, Robert
Salt is now brought from Norway to Mesen, where it costs fifty to sixty copecks per pood.
From The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II by Leslie, Alexander, fl. 1879-1882
I have bored you already, but I must tell you one thing more: the clover seed costs one hundred roubles a pood, and the oats needed for seed cost more than a hundred.
From Letters of Anton Chekhov by Garnett, Constance
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