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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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
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
All these boats convey goods from Astrakhan to Nijni Novgorod, Saratof, and other places, and vice versa, charging for freight from ten to thirty kopeks per pood, according to distance.
From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Xavier Hommaire de Hell
As I passed through the salons people smiled to see my bulging pockets and unsteady gait, for the weight which I was carrying must have amounted to half a pood!
From The Gambler by C. J. Hogarth
A week after the Exaltation of the Cross I sold my hay willingly at thirty kopecks a pood....
From The Witch and other stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
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