noun

• A unit of force in various measurement systems
• A unit of currency in various currency systems.
  "In the report of the Special Budget Commission certifying the estimates for 1874-75, it was announced on authority that the total amount of this debt did not exceed 14,725,000 Turkish pounds(liras), or £13,000,000, while the Special Commission for the verification of the budget for 1875-76 returned the total amount at 10,309,521 Turkish pounds(liras), or £8,935,000."
• (US) The symbol #.
  "Holonym: hashtag"

verb

• (slang, UK regional, transitive) To wager a pound on.
  "‘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.’"

noun

• (metonymic) The people who work for the pound.
  "(Police officer to a dog owner) "He'd better stay calm or I'll have the pound come and get him.""
• (UK) A place for the detention of automobiles that have been illegally parked, abandoned, etc.
  "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!"
• (Newfoundland) A division inside a fishing stage where cod is cured in salt brine.

verb

• (transitive) To strike hard, usually repeatedly.
  "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."
• (transitive) To crush to pieces; to pulverize.
  "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, […]"
• (transitive, slang) To eat or drink very quickly.
  "You really pounded that beer!"
• (transitive, baseball, slang) To pitch consistently to a certain location.
  "The pitcher has been pounding the outside corner all night."