Definitions for poods

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

Poods is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 38 anagrams from letters in poods (doops).

Definitions for poods

noun

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

Origin of poods

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

Examples for poods

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for poods
Scrable

7

Words with friends

8

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