Amsterdams pond
Dutch
Etymology
Amsterdams (“from Amsterdam”) + pond (“pound”)
Noun
Amsterdams pond n (plural Amsterdamse ponden, diminutive Amsterdams pondje n)
- (obsolete) 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.