Definition of "maund"

maund¹

/mɔːnd/

noun
plural maunds
1. A wicker basket.
2. A unit of capacity with various specific local values.
3. (regional) A handbasket with two lids.

maund²

/mɔːnd/

noun
plural maunds
1. (historical) A unit of weight in southern and western Asia, whose value varied widely by location. Two maunds made one chest of opium in East India. One maund equalled 136 pounds of opium in Turkey.
  Quotations
  Now the rail has come, and the fire-carriage says buz-buz-buz, and a hundred lakhs of maunds slide across that big bridge.
  1888, Rudyard Kipling, “In Flood Time”, in In Black and White, Folio Society, published 2005, page 410

maund³

/mɔːnd/

noun
uncountable
1. (archaic) begging
verb
third-person singular simple present maunds, present participle maunding, simple past and past participle maunded
1. (archaic) to beg
  Quotations
  You must hereafter maund on your own pads
  c. 1622, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger [et al.?], “Beggars Bvsh”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)
2. (obsolete) To mutter; to mumble or speak incoherently; to maunder.