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poundage

noun

Etymology

From pound + -age.

  1. derived from *(s)pend-✻
  2. derived from pondō
  3. inherited from *pundą✻
  4. inherited from *pund✻
  5. inherited from pund
  6. inherited from pound
  7. suffixed as poundage — “pound + age”

Definitions

  1. A charge based on the weight of something in pounds.

  2. A charge based on the value of something in pounds sterling.

  3. A weight measured in pounds.

  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. Weight, especially body weight.

      • Eating less chocolate may help you lose a little poundage.

    2. To collect, as poundage

      To collect, as poundage; to assess, or rate, by poundage.

    3. a fee charged for keeping an animal in a pound, or for its release

    4. the keeping of an animal in a pound

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for poundage. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA