A sum deducted from a pound, or a certain sum paid for each pound; a commission.
A subsidy of twelve pence in the pound, formerly granted to the crown on all goods exported or imported, and if by aliens, more. [Eng.] Blackstone.
The sum allowed to a sheriff or other officer upon the amount realized by an execution; -- estimated in England, and formerly in the United States, at so much of the pound. Burrill. Bouvier.
To collect, as poundage; to assess, or rate, by poundage. [R.]
Confinement of cattle, or other animals, in a public pound.
A charge paid for the release of impounded cattle.
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