A canal pound (from impound), reach, or level (American usage), is the stretch of level water impounded between two canal locks. Canal pounds can vary...

shelter (also a "pound"), a facility that houses homeless, lost, or abandoned animals Animal pound, a similar structure Canal pound, the stretch of level...

commonly used on canals and rivers today. A pound lock has a chamber with gates at both ends that control the level of water in the pound. In contrast, an...

Caisson lock, Canal inclined plane, Canal pound, Flash lock, Lock staircase, Pound lock List of canal aqueducts in the United Kingdom List of canal basins in...

summit level canal to use pound locks in Europe was the Briare Canal connecting the Loire and Seine (1642), followed by the more ambitious Canal du Midi (1683)...

The Egyptian pound (Egyptian Arabic: جنيه مصرى [geˈneː ˈmɑsˤri, ˈɡeni-]; abbreviations: £, E£, £E, LE, or EGP in Latin, and ج.م. in Arabic, ISO code:...

instrument designed to indicate whether a surface is horizontal or vertical Canal pound or level Regrading or levelling, the process of raising and/or lowering...

carry about 250 pounds (110 kg) but can draw a barge weighing as much as 60,000 pounds (27,000 kg) along a towpath. In total, a canal could cut transport...

Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an expatriate American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry...

Reservoir. The Paddington Arm is part of a long pound that stretches for nearly thirty miles. The canal was authorised by an Act of Parliament (35 Geo...