poundage

English

Etymology 1

pound +‎ -age

Noun

poundage (countable and uncountable, plural poundages)

1. (countable) a charge based on the weight of something in pounds
2. (countable) a charge based on the value of something in pounds sterling
3. (countable) a weight measured in pounds
4. (uncountable) weight, especially body weight

   Eating more beans may help you lose a little poundage.

   • 2023 May 6, James Poniewozik, “Charles III Was Crowned King. But Can He Ever Be the Star?”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     Saturday, he was at the center. And amid a day of carefully staged celebration, he looked somber, even weighed down by it. Each piece of royal hardware presented to him during his installation — orb, bejeweled sword, robes upon robes — seemed to add psychic poundage.

Verb

poundage (third-person singular simple present poundages, present participle poundaging, simple past and past participle poundaged)

1. To collect, as poundage; to assess, or rate, by poundage.

Etymology 2

pound +‎ -age

Noun

poundage (countable and uncountable, plural poundages)

1. (countable) a fee charged for keeping an animal in a pound, or for its release
2. (uncountable) the keeping of an animal in a pound