pound

en-noun

pound (plural pounds or (UK colloquial) pound)

pounds (plural)
pound (UK colloquial plural)

From Middle English pound, from Old English pund (“a pound, weight”), from Proto-West Germanic *pund, from Proto-Germanic *pundą (“pound, weight”), an early borrowing from Latin pondō (“by weight”), ablative form of pondus (“weight”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pend- (“to pull, stretch”).
Cognate with Dutch pond, German Pfund, Danish pund and Swedish pund. Doublet of pood and punt.

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an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure

an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure

take care of the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves

the Rhode Island pound; the New Hampshire pound

He knocked out cans of warm cola at two pound fifty a time.

2010, Steven Field, Dusty's Fort, →ISBN, page 33:

A unit of currency in various currency systems.

Any of various units of currency formerly used in the United States.


canal

→ Scottish Gaelic: canàl

Borrowed from Middle French canal, from Old French canal, from Latin canālis (“channel; canal”), from canālis (“canal”), from canna (“reed, cane”), from Ancient Greek κάννα (kánna, “reed”), from Akkadian 𒄀 (qanû, “reed”), from Sumerian 𒄀𒈾 (gi.na). Doublet of channel.

(astronomy) One of the faint, hazy markings resembling straight lines on early telescopic images of the surface of Mars; see Martian canals


lock

Tok Pisin: lok

→ Hawaiian: laka

From Middle English lok, from Old English loc, from Proto-West Germanic *lok, from Proto-Germanic *luką from Proto-Indo-European *lewg- (“to bend; turn”). The verb is from Middle English locken, lokken, louken, from Old English lūcan, Proto-West Germanic *lūkan, from Proto-Germanic *lūkaną. Related to luxe via Latin.


towpath

From the 1960s, various local authorities became increasingly involved in improving the neglected waterway, and towpaths were progressively reopened as footpaths.

2021 December 1, Nigel Harris, “St Pancras and King's Cross: 1947”, in RAIL, number 945, page 44:

A path alongside a canal or river, originally for horses towing barges, now more often used as a footpath.


narrowboat

A barge used on the narrow canals of England.


Suez Canal

A canal in Egypt linking the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea.


canalise

en-verb

canalise (third-person singular simple present canalises, present participle canalising, simple past and past participle canalised)

canalises (present singular third-person)
canalising (participle present)
canalised (participle past)
canalised (past)

. . . owing to the recent commencement of works about to be carried on on a large scale to improve and canalise the navigation of the Ebro . . .

1854, David Thomas Ansted, Scenery, Science and Art: being extracts from the note-book of a geologist and mining engineer:

Under Advance Brazil, the government plans to pave over 7000 kilometres of new Amazonian highways, canalise vast rivers and construct dozens of railways, […]

2005, New Science Publications, New scientist, volume 188:

(transitive, British spelling) To convert (a river or other waterway) into a canal.


puddle

From Middle English podel, diminutive of Old English pudd (“ditch”), from Proto-Germanic *puddaz (compare Low German Pudel (“puddle”), Middle High German podel (“quagmire, mudhole”), Hunsrik Puttel, dialectal German Pfudel (“puddle”), German pudeln (“to splash about”)), ultimately imitative.

onomatopoeic

imitative

A homogeneous mixture of clay, water, and sometimes grit, used to line a canal or pond to make it watertight.

hníst

a homogeneous mixture of clay, water, and sometimes grit


barge pole

A type of quant pole used to propel a barge through the water

drang

A pole for propelling a punt or other boat


Panama Canal

A major man-made canal in Panama that connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.


staircase lock

A set of locks on a waterway canal which rise steeply, and consisting of lock gates where the top gate of one lock is also the bottom gate of the next lock, not having a pound between each level.


flash lock

(waterways) A simple single-gate lock on a river or canal.


boat lift

A mechanism used for raising and lowering boats on a canal vertically from one water level to another.


Panama Canal Zone

/ˈpænəmɑː kəˈnæl ˌzəʊn/

On January 7, 1964, a group of American students at Balboa High School in the Panama Canal Zone set into motion events that soon threatened our relations with Panama and endangered operation of the Panama Canal. It was, on the surface, an inoffensive act: The students raised the American flag in front of the school.

1971, Lyndon Johnson, The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 180:

(historical) The territory within Panama, stretching along the course of the Panama Canal but excluding the sea port cities Panama City and Colón under the 18 November 1903 lease treaty until the return of state control on 30 September 1979.


canal basin

Incidentally, the yard in front of the Granary, now a lovely piazza, was once a canal basin that had been filled in decades before.

2021 December 1, Nigel Harris, “St Pancras and King's Cross: 1947”, in RAIL, number 945, page 43:

A broad pool of water on a canal system where barges / canal boats can moor and load or unload cargo.


Corinth Canal

A canal in Greece, that connects the Gulf of Corinth in the Ionian Sea with the Saronic Gulf in the Aegean Sea.