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Definition of Pound off
1. Verb. Partition off into compartments. "The locks pound the water of the canal"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pound Off
Literary usage of Pound off
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annual Register by Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Edmund Burke (1892)
"... whilst the middle class had been relieved to the extent of twopence in the
Income Tax, fourpence in the pound off the house duty on small houses ..."
2. Railway Reform: Its Importance and Practicability Considered as Affecting by William Galt (1865)
"When the Chancellor of the Exchequer took fourpence per pound off tea, there was
a decrease in the revenue of three or four hundred thousand pounds; ..."
3. Railway Reform: Its Importance and Practicability Considered as Affecting by William Galt (1865)
"When the Chancellor of the Exchequer took fourpence per pound off tea, there was
a decrease in the revenue of three or four hundred thousand pounds; ..."
4. Peterson's Magazine (1876)
"Another,—To every pound off/nit, weighed before stoning allow three-quarters of
a pound of powdered sugar and 1ml, i pint of water. ..."
5. The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut [1636-1776] by Connecticut, Connecticut General Assembly, Connecticut Council, James Hammond Trumbull, Connecticut Council of Safety, Charles Jeremy Hoadly (1872)
"... That two thousand pound of the said bills be taken off the large plate, and
the other two thousand pound off the small plate. ..."
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