Amsterdam pounds

A form of Amsterdam pound — One of many locally defined weight measures called pound before the introduction of the metric system, important because of its use in the thriving Dutch maritime commerce; equivalent to 0.4941 kilograms.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of Amsterdam pound
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