How to pronounce pound

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What pound means

noun

Most people know pound in its everyday sense. Here's its other meaning.

A place where stray dogs and cats are kept

In a sentence: We visited the pound and came home with a scruffy little terrier.

Where it comes from: It comes from an Old English word for an enclosure, a fenced-in space. It is a different word from the pound you weigh things in, which comes from Latin.

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