▪ I. pinder
(ˈpɪndə(r))
Forms: 5 pyndere, -are, 5–6 pynder, (7–8 pindar), 7– pinder.
[f. pind v. + -er1.]
An officer of a manor, having the duty of impounding stray beasts. (See also pinner2.)
| 14.. Nom. in Wr.-Wülcker 688/25 Inclusor, a pynder. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 400/1 Pyndare of beestys (Pynson pynnar), inclusor. 1523 Fitzherb. Husb. §148 Than cometh the pynder & taketh hym & putteth hym in the pynfolde. 1632 (title) The Pinder of Wakefield: Being the merry History of George a Greene the lusty Pinder of the North. 1769 De Foe's Tour Gt. Brit. III. 63 [At Nottingham] they have..two more [officers] called Pinders, one for the Fields, and the other for the Meadows. 1821 Clare Vill. Minstr. I. 88 While pinders, that such chances look, Drive his rambling cows to pound. 1890 Herts Mercury 4 Jan., To continue the directions to the pinder not to allow any cattle beyond those belonging to the inhabitants of the old prescriptive borough to be depastured in Hartham. |
▪ II. pinder
see pinda1.