Pound (village)
An animal pound was a place where stray livestock such as pigs would impounded in a dedicated enclosure until claimed by their owners, or sold to cover the costs of impounding.
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Famous quotes containing the word pound:
“Like a skein of loose silk blown against a wall
She walks by the railing of a path in Kensington Gardens,
And she is dying piecemeal
of a sort of emotional anemia.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)