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- English Word Pontooning Definition The act, art, or process of constructing pontoon bridges.
- English Word Ponty Definition See Pontee.
- English Word Ponvolant Definition A kind of light bridge, used in sieges, for surprising a post or outwork which has but a narrow moat; a flying bridge.
- English Word Pony Definition A small horse.
- English Word Pony Definition Twenty-five pounds sterling.
- English Word Pony Definition A translation or a key used to avoid study in getting lessons; a crib.
- English Word Pony Definition A small glass of beer.
- English Word Pood Definition A Russian weight, equal to forty Russian pounds or about thirty-six English pounds avoirdupois.
- English Word Poodle Definition A breed of dogs having curly hair, and often showing remarkable intelligence in the performance of tricks.
- English Word Pooh Definition Pshaw! pish! nonsense! -- an expression of scorn, dislike, or contempt.
- English Word Pooh-pooh Definition To make light of; to treat with derision or contempt, as if by saying pooh! pooh!
- English Word Pookoo Definition A red African antelope (Kobus Vardoni) allied to the water buck.
- English Word Pool Definition A small and rather deep collection of (usually) fresh water, as one supplied by a spring, or occurring in the course of a stream; a reservoir for water; as, the pools of Solomon.
- English Word Pool Definition A small body of standing or stagnant water; a puddle.
- English Word Pool Definition The stake played for in certain games of cards, billiards, etc.; an aggregated stake to which each player has contributed a snare; also, the receptacle for the stakes.
- English Word Pool Definition A game at billiards, in which each of the players stakes a certain sum, the winner taking the whole; also, in public billiard rooms, a game in which the loser pays the entrance fee for all who engage in the game; a game of skill in pocketing the balls on a pool table.
- English Word Pool Definition In rifle shooting, a contest in which each competitor pays a certain sum for every shot he makes, the net proceeds being divided among the winners.
- English Word Pool Definition Any gambling or commercial venture in which several persons join.
- English Word Pool Definition A combination of persons contributing money to be used for the purpose of increasing or depressing the market price of stocks, grain, or other commodities; also, the aggregate of the sums so contributed; as, the pool took all the wheat offered below the limit; he put $10,000 into the pool.
- English Word Pool Definition A mutual arrangement between competing lines, by which the receipts of all are aggregated, and then distributed pro rata according to agreement.
- English Word Pool Definition An aggregation of properties or rights, belonging to different people in a community, in a common fund, to be charged with common liabilities.
- English Word Pool Definition To put together; to contribute to a common fund, on the basis of a mutual division of profits or losses; to make a common interest of; as, the companies pooled their traffic.
- English Word Pool Definition To combine or contribute with others, as for a commercial, speculative, or gambling transaction.
- English Word Pooled Definition of Pool
- English Word Pooler Definition A stick for stirring a tan vat.
- English Word Pooling Definition of Pool
- English Word Pooling Definition The act of uniting, or an agreement to unite, an aggregation of properties belonging to different persons, with a view to common liabilities or profits.
- English Word Poon Definition A name for several East Indian, or their wood, used for the masts and spars of vessels, as Calophyllum angustifolium, C. inophullum, and Sterculia foetida; -- called also peon.
- English Word Poonac Definition A kind of oil cake prepared from the cocoanut. See Oil cake, under Cake.
- English Word Poonga oil Definition A kind of oil used in India for lamps, and for boiling with dammar for pitching vessels. It is pressed from the seeds of a leguminous tree (Pongamia glabra).