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
They dig it themselues and pay nothing for it, but to the prince a peny a pood, viz.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 03 by Richard Hakluyt
The pood commeth vnto 23. altines the tunne.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 03 by Richard Hakluyt
In some years wheat has been sold for ten copecks the pood, and other products at proportionate prices.
From Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life by Thomas Wallace Knox
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