LOB'S POUND

PRONUNCIATION: (LOBZ pound or lobz POUND)

MEANING: noun:
1. Prison.
2. Difficulty.
3. Entanglement.

ETYMOLOGY: From lob (a bumpkin, lout) + pound (enclosure). Earliest documented use: 1597.
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LAB'S POUND - animal shelter that admits only Labrador Retrievers

LOB'S POND - fishing hole out in the country

LOEB'S POUND - one-man show about the modernist American poet, commissioned by the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, MA