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pood

 (po͞od)
n.
A Russian unit of weight equivalent to about 16.4 kilograms (36.1 pounds) avoirdupois.

[Russian pud, from Old Norse pund, pound, ultimately from Latin pondō; see pound1.]
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pood

(puːd)
n
(Units) a unit of weight, used in Russia, equal to 36.1 pounds or 16.39 kilograms
[C16: from Russian pud, probably from Old Norse pund pound2]
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pood

(pud, put)

n.
a Russian weight equal to about 36 pounds avoirdupois (16 kg).
[1545–55; < Russian pud < Low German or Old Norse pund pound1]
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Noun1.pood - a Russian unit of weight equal to approximately 36 pounds
weight unit, weight - a unit used to measure weight; "he placed two weights in the scale pan"
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As I passed through the salons people smiled to see my bulging pockets and unsteady gait, for the weight which I was carrying must have amounted to half a pood! Several hands I saw stretched out in my direction, and as I passed I filled them with all the money that I could grasp in my own.
It is known that he mined about 3000 poods (50 tonnes) of oil shale per year as a by-product of limestone.
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Final Report: The Impact of PROGRESA on Health, International Pood Policy Research Institute, noviembre (mimeo).
Later that year, the United Pood and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW) and three agricultural workers complained that the APPA offered insufficient protections and that continued exclusion from the Labour Relations Act was unconstitutional.
(14) A pood is an old Russian measure of weight equal to 16.8 kg or 37 lb.
The Old Russian measures 1 verst 1066.78 meters / 1.6 km 500 sajenes 1 sajene 2.13356 meters 3 arshins 1 arshin 0.71 metres 16 vershok 1 pood 16.38 kilogram 1 kilogram 0.06105 pood 1 dessiatina 1.0925 hectare 2400 sq.