Pound = Pound Weight, mass of one pound, acceleration (due to gravity)
of 32 ft/sec^2

Poundal = mass of one pound, acceleration of 1 ft/sec^2

(Cue Mrs.Nugatory to dive in with a 13-year-old's ridiculous
insistence on literal detail?)

Pound, Money = sort of like a dollar, but twice as valuable and more robust.

"J. Mc Laughlin" wrote in message
...
I continue to be in awe of MEs who
always seem to know whether the "pounds" they are talking of are
sort-of-like mass, or sort-of-like force, or money.