Pound-1 (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

Pound-1

A prison. See Lob’S POUND. Pounded; imprisoned. Shut up in the parson’s pound; married.

Definition taken from The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, originally by Francis Grose.

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