noun. 
                    A compartment in an abattoir in which animals can be kept until they are slaughtered.
                  
                
                  
                    noun. 
                    A fundamental unit of weight or mass.
                  
                
                  
                    noun. 
                    A money of account, consisting of 20 shillings, or 240 pence, originally equivalent to a pound weight of silver (or of the alloy used).
                  
                
                  
                    noun. 
                    A balance.
                  
                
                  
                    
                    To weigh.
                  
                
                  
                    
                    To wager a pound on.
                  
                
                  
                    noun. 
                    An inclosure, maintained by authority, for confining cattle or other beasts when taken trespassing, or going at large in violation of law; a pinfold. Pounds were also used for the deposit of goods seized by distress.
                  
                
                  
                    noun. 
                    A pond.
                  
                
                  
                    noun. 
                    In a canal, the level portion between two locks.
                  
                
                  
                    noun. 
                    A pound-net; also, either one, inner or outer, of the compartments of such a net, or the inclosure of a gang of nets in which the fish are finally entrapped. See cut under pound-net.
                  
                
                  
                    
                    To shut up in a pound; impound; confine as in a pound; hence, to imprison; confine.
                  
                
                  
                    
                    Figuratively, to keep within narrow limits; cramp; restrain.