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'''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
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