Thereupon Prituitshkin ran as fast as he could and brought the hundred-pood bed, which he had stolen from Prince Dardavan.
You know very well that I always sleep on my hundred-pood bed: go instantly and bring it to me!
First he twined tightly a pood of hemp, and tarred it well with a pood of pitch; round this he plaited another pood of hemp, and tarred that also with another pood of pitch, till he had used up the whole forty.
The cost of transport, which amounted to between nine and ten copecks a pood (36.
I have a little of that by me, but not more than half a pood [16] or so.
In the former case you received (so you allege) twelve roubles per pood for your labour; but in this case you will receive money for having done nothing at all.
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.
They made him a seven-pood mace, and he brought it home.
The smiths put the iron in the fire and began to beat it with hammers and pull it, and made a seven-pood mace.
On my first day's training I mean to hold out half a pood [The Pood = 40 Russian pounds.
Not a pood should remain in the hands of those holding the grain, except the quantity needed for sowing the fields and provisioning their families until the new harvest.
The price of meal varies; this season it costs one rouble ten copecks perpood in Pustosersk.
Then another pood of tar and another hide, and so on until all have been used.
Over this spread a pood of tar, and fasten upon it another hide.
A pood of the best sea-horse teeth[15] sells At Yakutsk for 10 Roubles.
They brought back with them twenty-two pood of iron, ten of old cordage fit for caulker's use, some lead and copper, and several thousand beads.
The ore continues to pass through successive reductions until a poodof it contains no more than three-fourths a zolotink of silver; less than that proportion will not pay expenses.
From one pood of dirt, of course unusually rich, Mr. Kaporaki obtained 24 zolotniks, or three ounces of gold.
When the pay-dirt is reached, its depth and the number of zolotniks of gold in every pood taken out are ascertained.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pood" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
