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poud

poud is the alternative spelling of pood.

Meaning of pood

Noun

pood (plural poods)

  1. An obsolete Russian unit of mass, equal to 40 Russian funt, or about 16.38 kg (approximately 36.11 pounds).
    • About 250,000 poods of yuft are prepared annually, of which about 150,000 poods are red yuft, manufactured chiefly for foreign markets.1869, Great Britain. Parliament, Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons, page 295
  2. A Russian unit of mass used for kettlebells, now rounded off to 16 kg (about 35.274 pounds).

Forms of poud

pluralpouds

Questions about poud

What is poud the alternative spelling of?
Poud is the alternative spelling of pood.

Words near poud in the dictionary

  1. pouchongs
  2. pouchoscopies
  3. pouchoscopy
  4. pouchwort
  5. pouchy
  6. poud
  7. Poudel
  8. Poudels
  9. pouding chômeur
  10. poudings chômeur
  11. poudrage

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Adapted from Wiktionary: poud (page history and authors); pood (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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