Poinder
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 The keeper of a cattle pound; a pinder. Scotland
"So Caius Gracchus defends the treasury from others' violence, whiles himself robbed it; so the poinder chafes and swears to see beasts in the corn, yet will pull up a stake, or cut a tether, to find supply for his pin-fold"
- 2 One who distrains property. Scotland
"The poinder no doubt is preferable at common law, because the assignment not being completed by intimation, the debtor continues still proprietor"
Example
More examples"So Caius Gracchus defends the treasury from others' violence, whiles himself robbed it; so the poinder chafes and swears to see beasts in the corn, yet will pull up a stake, or cut a tether, to find supply for his pin-fold"
Etymology
From poind + -er.
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