Pound 3175108 223749326 2008-07-05T16:28:39Z 21stCenturyGreenstuff 6295372 /* Other */ {{wiktionarypar|pound}} {{TOCright}} '''Pound''' may refer to: ===Units=== *[[Pound (currency)]], a unit of currency in various countries *[[Pound sign]], '''£''' *[[Pound (mass)]], various units of mass or weight *[[Number sign]], '''#''', known in the U.S. as the pound sign *[[Pound (rail)]], a unit of rail weight *[[Pound-force]], a unit of force ===People=== * [[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 * [[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 (band)|Pound]], an American rock band * A [[Sharp (music)|sharp]] ({{music|sharp}}), a musical symbol that resembles the pound sign or number sign (#) * [[Pound (film)]], a 1970 film [[Category:Surnames]] {{disambig}} [[de:Pound]] [[fr:Pound]] [[nl:Pound]] [[ja:パウンド]] [[pl:Pound]] [[sk:Pound]] [[th:ปอนด์]] [[vo:Pound]]