单词 | pood |
释义 | poodn. Now chiefly historical. A Russian unit of weight, equal to 40 funt (Russian pounds) and equivalent to 16.4 kg (36 lb) approx. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement by weighing > [noun] > unit or denomination of weight > units in Russia pood1589 pud1654 zolotnik1783 1589 R. Hakluyt tr. J. Hasse in Princ. Navigations ii. 294 The pode doth containe of the great weight, 40. pounds, and of the small 80. there goe 10. podes to a shippond. 1599 R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations I. 369 As many barkes as you wil to transport your wares from thence to S. Nicholas road, and that for three pence a poods caryage. 1616 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdoms World (rev. ed.) iv. 305 Of Wax 50000 poad; euerie poad contayning fortie pounds. 1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 111 Raising the Poude (that is 40. pound) of Salt, to thirty pence. 1663 in Mecurius Publicus 1−8 Jan. 2 Twenty Russe Pud of the Tooth of Sea-horse, each Pud is 40 pound weight. Ten thousand Pud of Hemp. 1723 tr. F. C. Weber Present State Russia I. 76 At the Rate of four Rubels a Pudde. 1753 J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea I. xiii. 87 These waggons usually carry from 25 to 30 poods. 1814 F. Shoberl tr. J. Klaproth Trav. Caucasus & Georgia 297 Rock salt..in large..blocks, weighing five or six pud. 1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 10 Sept. 5/2 The gold mines of Russia have yielded 31,627 poods. 1890 Daily 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. 1901 A. 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. 1952 E. H. Carr Bolshevik Revol. 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. 1998 New Scientist 26 Sept. 19/3 One click converts kilograms into a multitude of units, from carats to scruples or even to poods. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1589 |
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