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‖ pood|puːd|
Forms: 6–7 pode, 7 poude, 7–8 poad(e, 8 (pœd), pudde, 8–9 pud, 9 poud, 7– pood.
[Russ. pudu, ad. LG. or Norse pund pound.]
A Russian weight, equal to 40 lb. Russian, or slightly more than 36 lb. avoirdupois.
1554J. Hasse in Hakluyt Voy. (1903) II. 274 The pode doth containe of the great weight, 40 pounds, and of the smal 80: there goe 10. podes to a shippond. 1630R. Johnson's Kingd. & Commw. 474 Of Wax fiftie thousand poad; every poad contayning fortie pounds. 1662in M. Blundell Cavalier (1933) vi. 103 Twenty Russe Pud of the tooth of Sea-Horse—each Pud is 40 pound weight. Ten thousand Pud of hemp. 1662J. Davies tr. Olearius' Voy. Ambass. 111 Raising the Poude (that is 40. pound) of Salt, to thirty pence. 1723Pres. St. Russia I. 76 At the Rate of four Rubels a Pudde. 1753Hanway Trav. (1762) I. ii. xiii. 58 These waggons usually carry from twenty-five to thirty poods. 1814tr. Klaproth's Trav. 297 Rock salt..in large..blocks, weighing five or six pud. 1884Pall Mall G. 10 Sept. 5/2 The gold mines of Russia have yielded 31,627 poods. 1890Daily News 27 Nov. 6/4 The Russian poud weighs as nearly as possible thirty-six English pounds,..there are nearly sixty-two pouds to the ton. 1901A. M. B. Meakin Ribbon of Iron xvi. 226 From mines discovered in 1866..2,500 puds of gold were extracted during a period of twenty years. 1952E. H. Carr Bolshevik Revolution II. xix. 285 Kalinin estimated the total of relief supplies up to December 1921 at 1,800,000 puds of grain and 600,000 puds of other foodstuffs from home stocks. |