To beat. How the milling cove pounded the cull for being nuts on his blowen; how the boxer beat the fellow for taking liberties with his mistress.
Definition taken from The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, originally by Francis Grose.
poulterer * pound-1Nathan Bailey's 1721 Dictionary of canting and thieving slang
John S. Farmer's collection of canting songs and slang rhymes