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pond (n.)
c.1300 (mid-13c. in compounds), "artificially banked body of water," variant of
pound
"enclosed place" (see
pound
(n.2)). Applied locally to natural pools and small lakes from late 15c. Jocular reference to "the Atlantic Ocean" dates from 1640s.
