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A Russian unit of weight equal to approximately 36 pounds
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pood
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Pood \Pood\, n. [Russ. pud'.] A Russian weight, equal to forty Russian pounds or about thirty-six English pounds avoirdupois.
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n. a Russian unit of weight equal to approximately 36 pounds
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Pood , is a unit of mass equal to 40 funt (фунт, Russian pound ). Plural: pudi or pudy. It is approximately 16.38 kilograms (36.11 pounds ). It was used in Russia , Belarus , and Ukraine . Pood was first mentioned in a number of 12th-century documents. ...
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n. 1 An obsolete Russian unit of mass, equal to 40 Russian фунт#Russian, or about 16.38 kg (approximately 36.11 pounds) 2 A Russian unit of mass used for kettlebells, now rounded off to 16 kg (about 35.274 pounds)
Usage examples of pood.
The price of corn is here forty copecks the pood of forty pounds, while the same quantity at Samara could be purchased for eighteen copecks.
Every such block is the size of a cubic sagene and weighs hundreds of poods.
I can hold out four poods in each hand, and be stronger even than a porter.
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!
There is no point in making out customs declarations and weighing poods and funts until we are assured that all of you are admissible.