Clues for the word "POUND"
We've had 84 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 104 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Penny Dell Sunday crossword on September 27, 2026.
Definition of pound
- v. t. - To strike repeatedly with some heavy instrument; to beat.
- v. t. - To comminute and pulverize by beating; to bruise or break into fine particles with a pestle or other heavy instrument; as, to pound spice or salt.
- v. i. - To strike heavy blows; to beat.
- v. i. - To make a jarring noise, as in running; as, the engine pounds.
- n. - An inclosure, maintained by public authority, in which cattle or other animals are confined when taken in trespassing, or when going at large in violation of law; a pinfold.
- n. - A level stretch in a canal between locks.
- n. - A kind of net, having a large inclosure with a narrow entrance into which fish are directed by wings spreading outward.
- v. t. - To confine in, or as in, a pound; to impound.
- pl. - of Pound
- n. - A certain specified weight; especially, a legal standard consisting of an established number of ounces.
- n. - A British denomination of money of account, equivalent to twenty shillings sterling, and equal in value to about $4.86. There is no coin known by this name, but the gold sovereign is of the same value.
Referring Clues
- Feared destination in "Lady and the Tramp"
- Theme of this puzzle
- Where a stray may stay
- Hit with a hammer
- Temporary home for strays
- Nottingham note
- Stray dog house
- Butcher shop unit
- Zip
- Quid
- .0005 tons
- Animal shelter
- 100 pence
- Pulverize
- Potato unit
- %23 key
- British ___
- Canterbury currency
- # key
- Stray dog place
- Hammer on
- Fruit-store weight unit
- Weight unit
- Ton part
- Mutt's place
- Modernist poet
- Home for strays
- Beat
- Type of cake
- Kilogram's predecessor
- Hammer
- 16 ounces
- 16 23-Acrosses
- Olympic poobah Dick
- British money
- Fruit-store weight measure
- British currency
- Egyptian monetary unit
- Dog shelter
- Heavy Cambridge coin
- Poet pal of Hemingway
- Egyptian currency
- Scale unit
- Rather heavy British coin
- Sixteen ounces
- Sixteen ounces (5)
- Might have bought a Beatles record for this
- See 6
- Tender from bash
- Beat - poet, d. 1972
- Hit -money - pen
- Weight - currency - beat - enclosure
- The price to beat?
- Beat up to get money
- Beat heavily!
- Bang on the coop
- About 454 grams
- Money for one whose verse was free
- Deli unit
- Money for tramp
- Poet's pen
- It's rich to serve rum and coke up!
- Scale increment
- Unit of weight
- Beat for some money
- Keep striking for money
- With 26 across, often found quietly replacing leading firms
- Ghostwriter of "Hugh Selwyn Mauberley"?
- Manx currency
- Basic monetary unit of Egypt, Sudan and Syria
- Irish currency replaced by the euro
- Ezra ___--, major figure in the early modernist poetry movement
- Strike weighty blows
- Beat excitedly
- Word before "cake" or "sign"
- Unit of weight abbreviated as "lb."
- The price to beat?
- UK's currency unit
- Beat Don up?
- Use a hammer on ("In a Station of the Metro")
- Poet Ezra
- Strike repeatedly for money
- Repeatedly hit hard
- Pummel
Last Seen In
- Penny Dell Sunday - September 27, 2026
- Daily Cryptic - April 30, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - April 21, 2026
- Daily Quick - March 24, 2026
- New York Times - December 28, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - December 04, 2025
- Daily American - October 13, 2025
- Daily Quick - May 25, 2025
- Daily Quick - May 12, 2025
- Daily American - March 03, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 01, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 17, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - April 29, 2024
- Daily Quick - March 23, 2024
- New York Times - November 12, 2023
- Daily American - October 13, 2023
- Daily Quick - May 25, 2023
- Daily Quick - May 12, 2023
- New York Times - April 19, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 22, 2023
- Daily American - March 03, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 28, 2023
- USA Today - October 27, 2022
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 14, 2022
- Rock n Roll Crossword - November 12, 2017
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 03, 2017
- Daily American - October 13, 2017
- Mirror Quick - June 10, 2017
- Mirror Quick - June 10, 2017
- Daily Quick - May 25, 2017
- And in 74 more crossword puzzles...