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Amsterdams pond
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Dutch
Etymology
From nl Amsterdams from Amsterdam pond pound.
Pronunciation
nl Nl-Amsterdams pond.ogg
Noun
n Amsterdamse ponden +
nl 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
nl Units of measure