poundage

noun 6verb 1

Definitions

noun

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

Weight, especially body weight.

Eating less chocolate may help you lose a little poundage.

Saturday, he was at the center. And amid a day of carefully staged celebration, he looked somber, even weighed down by it. Each piece of royal hardware presented to him during his installation — orb, bejeweled sword, robes upon robes — seemed to add psychic poundage.

verb

1

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

noun

1

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

2

the keeping of an animal in a pound

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