† pound-likeadv.
Obsolete. rare.
By the pound; at so much per pound.
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1472–3 Rolls of Parl. VI. 59/1 Losse to be born by deduction to be made oute of every mannes apprest pownd like.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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pound-like
pound-like adj.
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1883 Times 23 May 5/3 The circular pound-like structure of stone called the Place of Skulls, where prisoners were formerly executed.
1898 Westm. Gaz. 20 Jan. 5/2 A corner is boarded off in a sort of pound-like manner.
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adv.1472as lemmas
- a mercy's name
- a mere circumstance
- a mere toy
- a merry grig
- a mess of plottage
- a mess of pottage
- a messmate before a shipmate, a shipmate before a stranger
- a mezza voce
- a mi la
- a mile a minute
- a mile of way
- a million
- a million and one
- a million bucks
- a million dollars
- a million miles
- a million miles away from
- a million miles etc from
- a million miles from
- a million to one
- a millstone round one's neck
- a mind like a cesspool
- a mind like a sewer
- a mind like a sink
- a minority of one