pood

Note: a pood is a Russian measure of weight equal to about ten stone.

Actually you'll see that suggestion has been completely poo pood.

Norwegian: If you buy - please four pood.

Conversion factors from pood to other units of mass (contemporary and ancient)

The pood was used in Russia, Finland, Belarus and Ukraine.

An old Russian proverb reads, "You never know a man until you have eaten a pood of salt with him."

A large, cubical, windowless building, with the single word PoOD next to each of the sealed entrances.

A kopeck was levied for the shipping a pood of goods a distance of 100 verst.

"This is ditty pood grope," he said, and then he sighed and his shoulders slumped.

The word dropped into the silence like a stone into a pood, irretrievably, and I saw the slight tightening of the skin across his sharp cheekbones; then it was over.

Together with other units of weight of the Imperial Russian weight measurement system, pood was officially abolished by the USSR in 1924.

In his 1953 short story 'Matryonas Home' Alexander Solzhenitsyn presents the pood as still in use amongst the Khrushchev era Soviet peasants.

"I must admit, it's rather nice to leave Benden with everyone in a pood frame of mind for a change," Menolly said as Ruth bore her and Jaxom upward.

He acts friendly towards Tim and misuses him to do degrading tasks such as pretending to have pood on the floor when he sneaks his dog in or taking his daughter to her prom.

Most of the older guns, including eleven 6 inch 190 pood siege guns and thirteen 9 inch coastal mortars, were transported to the land front of the fortress shortly after the start of war.

At the NEC World Junior Championships in Ann Arbor, Mich., in August, John Spooner, a member of the Australian squad, was described by a commentator as a pood glayer.

Its usage is preserved in modern Russian in certain specific cases, e.g., in reference to sports weights, such as traditional Russian kettlebells, cast in multiples and fractions of 16 kg (which is pood rounded to metric units).

In general, the word "bread" is associated in Russian culture with hospitality, bread being the most respected food, whereas salt is associated with long friendship, as expressed in a Russian saying "to eat a pood of salt (together with someone)".

Within 2001 VIA Gra collected some of their first awards: "A Hundred Pood Hit" from HIT FM Radio, "Golden Gramophone" from "Russian Radio", and the "Golden Firebird" prize at the Ukrainian annual festival "Tavriyski Igry".