WordNet
v. shut up or confine in any enclosure or within any bounds or limits; "The prisoners are safely pounded" [syn: pound]
Usage examples of "pound up".
It seemed but slight, but to lift even a pound up a vertical height of one thousand feet was in itself a severe strain.
Not like the older ones which took up to an hour and a half and were so inefficient that it was usually necessary to pound up the skull and pelvis afterwards.
It will pound up against the raised road west of here - since it was the coastal road back then.
The boy rose early each morning and ate his breakfast impatiently, knowing that the chestnut stallion was waiting just outside the cottage and that, as soon as breakfast was over, the two of them could gallop out through the dewdrenched grass glistening green and lush in the slanting, golden rays of the morning sun and pound up the long slopes of the hills lying before them with the cool, sweet morning air rushing past them.
They heard him pound up the stairs and then followed at a more sedate pace all the way to the top, meeting no one else on the way.