poundage

noun

1. (countable)A charge based on the weight of something in pounds.
2. (countable)A charge based on the value of something in pounds sterling.
3. (countable)A weight measured in pounds.
4. (uncountable)Weight, especially body weight.

   “Eating less chocolate may help you lose a little poundage.”

   “Saturday, he was at the center. And amid a day of carefully staged celebration, he looked somber, even weighed down by it. Each piece of royal hardware presented to him during his installation — orb, bejeweled sword, robes upon robes — seemed to add psychic poundage.”

5. (countable)a fee charged for keeping an animal in a pound, or for its release
6. (uncountable)the keeping of an animal in a pound

verb

1. To collect, as poundage; to assess, or rate, by poundage.