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pound noun Pounds. (used after a numeral or other quantifying word). [reflects plural partitive genitive case from Old English]

1837 McLean Diary 48 [I] made 8 pound of Sugar makeing in all 366 3/4. 1864 Chapman CW Letters (April 10) I Bought ten pound of cotten of hur and is to go after it nex sunday if it dont Rain.1913 Kephart Our Sthn High 287 I can make a hundred pound o’ pork outen that hog. 1939 Hall Coll (Cataloochee NC) We carried the bear in, took him to the scales and weighed him. He weighed four hundred and seventy-five pound. 1973 GSMNP-76:13a We'd go to town, take a little truck and buy a hundred pound [of sugar] and bring it and put in there. It would do us a week. 1989 Matewan OHP-56 I used to be able to take a hundred pound of feed on each shoulder and take up off the mountain, where people bought feed for their cattle and their cows and things.