Foot-poundal

Full definition of foot-poundal

Noun

1. (dated) A unit of work done when by a force of one poundal moves through a distance of one foot
• 1924, Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not…, Penguin 2012 (Parade's End), p. 65:He … made abstruse calculations as to the flight of balls off sloped club-faces, as to the foot-poundals of energy exercised by one muscle or the other, and as to theories of spin.