Meanings of pood in inglês

And only yesterday they were carrying five-pood baskets from the bazaar.'

The teams belong to peasants, who carry freight for a stipulated sum per pood.

When he rose from table Chichikov felt as though a pood's weight were inside him.

The price of meal varies; this season it costs one rouble ten copecks per pood in Pustosersk.

Salt is now brought from Norway to Mesen, where it costs fifty to sixty copecks per pood.

In some years wheat has been sold for ten copecks the pood, and other products at proportionate prices.

And all sorts of merchandise, of whatever denomination, imported from Okotzk, pay half a rouble for every pood.

We have bought clover seed at ten roubles a pood, but we have no money left for oats.

When the pay-dirt is reached, its depth and the number of zolotniks of gold in every pood taken out are ascertained.

The tobacco of Russia is mild, and of inferior flavor, and brings from 40 to 80 kopecks per pood.

Among the Samoyeds, at Chabanova, on the Siberian coast, the white-whale fisheries amount to fifteen hundred or two thousand pood of train-oil a year.

On the steppe oats were forty copecks, and wheat and rye seventy copecks a pood; equaling about thirty cents and seventy-five cents a bushel respectively.

But Ivan and his brothers threw three poods of salt into her mouth.

Well, I had a hundred poods for sale; the women mowed it on the water-meadow.

There is his sword, fifty poods in weight.

Then we have over a million poods of copper, ready for export on the same conditions.