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ˈpoundstone
[f. pound n.1 1 + stone.]
1. A natural stone or pebble of a pound weight, formerly often used as a weight.
1577Kendall Flowers of Epigr., etc. Trifles 24 Then doth the ponderous poundstone purse Bring doune their feete againe. 1855Robinson Whitby Gloss., Pundston or Pundstone, a natural stone or pebble of the requisite weight, by which farmers formerly portioned their butter into pounds of twenty-two ounces or ‘the lang pund’. 1860Athenæum 22 Sept. 375 Echini which they called..‘pound stones’, as they were often used by the dairywomen for a pound-weight in the sale of butter.
2. Coal-mining (local). See quots.
1879G. F. Jackson Shropsh. Word-bk., Poundstone, dirt lying next under the coal,—the coal-floor. 1883Gresley Gloss. Coal Mining, Poundstone, a kind of underclay. |