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1. (slang, UK regional, transitive) To wager a pound on.Examples: "‘Good-bye, my dear!' said Sleary. 'You'll make your fortun, I hope, and none of our poor folkth will ever trouble you, I'll pound it.’"; "“He's done,” said the Moocher brutally. “He didn't hear nuffin, I'll pound it.”"UKregionalslangtransitive

1. (metonymic) The people who work for the pound.Examples: "(Police officer to a dog owner) "He'd better stay calm or I'll have the pound come and get him.""metonymically

2. (UK) A place for the detention of automobiles that have been illegally parked, abandoned, etc.Examples: "Inspector Douglas Todd: Where did you get a truckload of cigarettes from anyway? / Detective Axel Foley: From the Dearborn Hijacking. / Todd: The Dearborn Hijacking? That bust went down weeks ago. That load's supposed to be in the damn pound!"Synonyms: impound, car pound, impound lot, impoundUK

3. (Newfoundland) A division inside a fishing stage where cod is cured in salt brine.Synonyms: bulkNewfoundland

1. (transitive) To strike hard, usually repeatedly.Examples: "She had Lord James' collar in one big fist and she pounded the table with the other and talked a blue streak. Nobody could make out plain what she said, for she was mainly jabbering Swede lingo, but there was English enough, of a kind, to give us some idee."; "[...] and on the Saturday heavy seas pounded the W.R. on its exposed coastal stretch between Dawlish and Teignmouth, loosening the ballast and forcing trains to proceed with extreme caution."; "I pounded on a farmhouse / Lookin' for a place to stay / I was mighty, mighty tired / I had come a long, long way"Synonyms: hammer, pelt, bang, baste, batter, beat, belabor, blowtransitive

2. (transitive) To crush to pieces; to pulverize.Examples: "Pound an onion, warm a spoonful of ghee and throw in the onion, brown it slightly, add your curry stuff, brown this till it smells pleasantly, […]"; "It was the hour before the first crowing of the cocks, and along with Nyo Boto and Grandma Yaisa's clattering, the first sound the child heard was the muted, rhythmic bombpabombpabomp of wooden pestles as the other women of the village pounded couscous grain in their mortars, preparing the traditional breakfast of porridge that was cooked in earthen pots over a fire built among three rocks."Synonyms: pulverate, trituratetransitive

3. (transitive, slang) To eat or drink very quickly.Examples: "You really pounded that beer!"; "The sounds of a house-party rolled down the street / So we pounded our Pilsner and leapt to our feet"Synonyms: bolt, down, chug, eat, have, fret, drink, hydrateslangtransitive

4. (transitive, baseball, slang) To pitch consistently to a certain location.Examples: "The pitcher has been pounding the outside corner all night."slangtransitive

5. (intransitive, of a body part, generally heart, blood, or head) To beat strongly or throb.Examples: "As I tiptoed past the sleeping dog, my heart was pounding but I remained silent."; "My head was pounding."; "It was now about three o’clock in the morning and Francis Macomber, who had been asleep a little while after he had stopped thinking about the lion, wakened and then slept again, woke suddenly, frightened in a dream of the bloody-headed lion standing over him, and listening while his heart pounded, he realized that his wife was not in the other cot in the tent."intransitive

6. (transitive, vulgar, slang) To penetrate sexually, with vigour.Examples: "I was pounding her all night!"; "She acting, so I'm attacking, try break the mattress / Sexy, so I suggested to switch to sideways / Pounded for 'bout a hour she said she tired"Synonyms: drill, get up in, nail, poke, Formal terms, bed, coit, coitizeslangtransitivevulgar