Definitions for pood

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Spelling: [pood; Russian poot]
IPA: /pud; Russian put/

Pood is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 18 anagrams from letters in pood (doop).

Definitions for pood

noun

  1. a Russian weight equal to about 36 pounds avoirdupois (16 kg).

Origin of pood

1545-55; Russian pud Low German or Old Norse pund pound1

Examples for pood

When the pay-dirt is reached, its depth and the number of zolotniks of gold in every pood taken out are ascertained.

Although this was difficult from the want of instruments, I succeeded in collecting more than a pood (thirty-six pounds) of hair.

Over this spread a pood of tar, and fasten upon it another hide.

Flour, for instance, was from three to five roubles the pood,13 and deer from three to five roubles each.

Ivan went home and said to his father, “Father, make me another mace, a ten pood one.”

From one pood of dirt, of course unusually rich, Mr. Kaporaki obtained 24 zolotniks, or three ounces of gold.

We have bought clover seed at ten roubles a pood, but we have no money left for oats.

When he rose from table Chichikov felt as though a pood's weight were inside him.

The pood, be it remembered, is equal to (rather more than) 36 lbs.

In some years wheat has been sold for ten copecks the pood, and other products at proportionate prices.

Word Value for pood
Scrable

7

Words with friends

8

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