WordNet
pound off
v. partition off into compartments; "The locks pound the water of the canal" [syn: pound]
Usage examples of "pound off".
And he must have been a good-hearted fellow, for I never heard of such an idea coming into the head of any other man with a horse to sell: instead of putting something on to the price because he was now pretty sure of selling him, he actually took a pound off what he had meant to ask for him, saying to himself it was a shame to part old friends.
I can get a set of racin' plates made for him, too, for a pound off his feet is four pounds off his back.
He cooked himself an egg and when he'd eaten it he trotted upstairs to take a pound off old Mac and give him a beer.
They'd just got to the doorway when antiaircraft guns began to pound off to the west.