pound
basic unit of Scots weight (from the Latin pondo, ‘by weight’, or pondus, meaning a ‘weight on a scale’), which equated roughly with the Roman weight, libra, hence the abbreviation of ‘lb.’ See also Weights.
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poundland
a piece of land which would have been originally valued at one pound in the extent; generally taken as 4 oxgangs or half a ploughgate.