What's the difference between impoundment and poundage?
Impoundment
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Poundage
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(n.) A sum deducted from a pound, or a certain sum paid for each pound; a commission.
(n.) A subsidy of twelve pence in the pound, formerly granted to the crown on all goods exported or imported, and if by aliens, more.
(n.) The sum allowed to a sheriff or other officer upon the amount realized by an execution; -- estimated in England, and formerly in the United States, at so much of the pound.
(v. t.) To collect, as poundage; to assess, or rate, by poundage.
(n.) Confinement of cattle, or other animals, in a public pound.
(n.) A charge paid for the release of impounded cattle.
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(1) Data on the poundage of antioxidants are presented, as well as the food groups that are most likely to contain them.