Amsterdam pound
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Calque of Dutch Amsterdams pond, from Amsterdam + pond (“pound (weight measure)”).
Noun[edit]
Amsterdam pound (plural Amsterdam pounds)
- (obsolete) One of many locally defined weight measures called pound before the introduction of the metric system, important because of its use in the thriving Dutch maritime commerce; equivalent to 0.4941 kilograms.