A wicker basket. / A unit of capacity with various specific local values. / (regional) A handbasket with two lids.

(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.

(archaic) begging

(archaic) to beg / (obsolete) To mutter; to mumble or speak incoherently; to maunder.

plural of maund

simple past tense and past participle of maund

present participle of maund

A surname.

(Britain) A special coinage given to the deserving poor in a religious ceremony performed by Anglicans on Maundy Thursday.

The Thursday before Easter, which commemorates the Last Supper.