If you don't know what these are, they look rather like an iron cannonball with a looped handle welded onto it, and they come in various weights, called "poods," in Russian, which is where they were supposedly developed. ❋ Steve Perry (2007)
Well, I had a hundred poods for sale; the women mowed it on the water-meadow. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Lord, in the 7082. yeere of the worlds creation, thy Maiesties treasurer, named Gregorie Mekitowich Borozden, tooke of vs for thy vse 12. poods of loafe sugar, prised at 8. robles the pood, which sugar was sent to the Sloboda [Marginal note: The Emperours house of recreation.]. ❋ Unknown (2003)
In the towne of Some also there are many warehouses, whereof we cannot be destitute for the reposing of our wares, as also as many barkes as you wil to transport your wares from thence to S. Nicholas road, and that for three pence a poods caryage: so that from the Citie of Nouogrod vnto S. Nicholas road you may haue wares caried for two altines. ❋ Unknown (2003)
From the hay — of which, according to your calculations, we shall be able to sell 7000 poods [The pood = 40 lbs.] at 45 copecks a piece there should come in 3000, Consequently the sum-total that you ought to have in hand soon is — how much? — 12,000 roubles. ❋ Unknown (2003)
While attempting to rescue Tata, Rumata spent thirty poods of gold, lost four of his agents (noble dons who did not realize what they were doing) and came himself within an ace of being killed when he was attacked during an attempt to abduct the condemned physician. ❋ Strugatski, Arkadi & Strugatski, Boris (1973)
Thus each new king would gather an army shortly after he ascended to the throne, and march toward Castle Bau, where the barons dwelt The walls of the castle were solid, the barons were brave, and each year, as before, the kingdom of Arkanar had yet to collect the twelve poods of pure silver. ❋ Strugatski, Arkadi & Strugatski, Boris (1973)
According to this feudal law, the Barons of Pampa were supposed to pay the Arkanarian kings twelve poods of pure silver each year. ❋ Strugatski, Arkadi & Strugatski, Boris (1973)
Russia imports about 500,000 poods (40 lbs. each) of olive oil annually. ❋ P. L. Simmonds (N/A)
_ -- Contents: water, 310 cubic feet, or 1,933 gallons, or 8½ tons; anthracite, 600 poods, or 10 tons; or wood, 1½ cubic sajene, or ❋ Various (N/A)
R., these figures are shown by the table to correspond with 200.61 poods = 7,245 lb., or 3.23 tons, of petroleum. ❋ Various (N/A)
_This_ province alone has, in this year, yielded five hundred poods of gold. ❋ Various (N/A)
Gold here measures every thing: a lady's charms are by weight, "a pood is a good girl, and two or three poods are twice or thrice as good as a wife." ❋ Various (N/A)
In return, besides eggs, fish, veal and other vegetables over 32,600 pounds (902 poods) of potatoes have been received. ❋ Harry H. Mead (N/A)
The output for the unskilled is 28.9 poods in a shift, for the skilled 68.3. ❋ Arthur Ransome (1925)
Thus, ten million poods of fish were caught last year, but there were no means of bringing them from the fisheries to the great industrial centres where they were most needed. ❋ Arthur Ransome (1925)
Then we have over a million poods of copper, ready for export on the same conditions. ❋ Arthur Ransome (1925)
In the Donetz coal basin, the monthly output per man was in 1914 750 poods, in 1916 615 poods, in 1919 240 poods (figures taken from Ekaterinoslav Government), and in 1920 the output per man is estimated at being something near 220 poods. ❋ Arthur Ransome (1925)
We thought we had no salt, but then we discovered seventy poods in Moscow in one of our warehouses. ❋ Goldman, Emma, 1869-1940 (1923)
Bands of sailors and Red Guards scoured the warehouses, the railway terminals, even the barges in the canals, unearthing and confiscating thousands of poods 1 of food held by private speculators. ❋ Unknown (1922)
Cryspy: [poods] get out of the way!
[Poods]: no! [Senpai] [noticed] me! ❋ XxlelnotpoodsxX (2015)
[dude check] out his poods[whoa man] that [shits] fat ❋ Muhfucka69 (2006)
damn, poods how do you drive without any [thumbs]?
there is a nice [bush] over there poods for you to [pee] in. ❋ Markus08 (2008)
[medical student]. the heart. poods is like a [tree] in [the snow]. ❋ Chunkarlunks (2012)
1. "[manny] [wat the] FXXK? [i think] u just pooded?"
2. "[I think] i just pooded guys!" ❋ Caidoz Rellik 999 (2009)
-This apple tatses like [pooding]
-That car is pooding
-You've got pooding on your shirt
-Pooding?
[-1]+5=[Pooding]
-Man 1-"Is the 5th of July [a monday]?". Man 2-"Pooding?" ❋ Guppygould (2009)
I pood my [pants]. [When I] pood, it smelled like [poo]. ❋ Tractor Face (2005)
[Dave] could [stand] [to lose] a few pood. ❋ Anonymous (2003)
"Ouch! That pood [stung]!!"
"Pssst, dude, I can see your pood"
"[Hey girl], lemme [eat that] pood" ❋ Nickary Potato Jr (2018)
Positive "Hey pood, what's [goin' on]."
OR
negative "[so yesterday] I [talked] to that pood, (name of person), he is such a... pood" ❋ Pandajoi (2005)
