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buffalo pound Hist.

• an enclosure, corral, or large trap into which the Indians drove buffalo in order to slaughter them.

  See also: buffalo compound  compound  pound ((n.)) (def. 1b)  

  • 1772  (1908)  Did not proceed. The men singing their Buffalo Pound songs.
  • 1820  (1823)  The buffalo-pound was a fenced circular space of about a hundred yards in diameter; the entrance was banked up with snow, to a sufficient height to prevent the retreat of the animals that once have entered.
  • 1953  Their tribesmen below would corral the buffalo in a natural ravine buffalo pound and there slaughter them.
  • 1963  They passed several Indian camps, each near a buffalo pound. . . .