▪ I. poind, n. Sc.
(see next)
[f. poind v.]
a. An act of poinding, a distraint. b. A beast or other chattel poinded. dead poind, a poinded article of goods as opposed to live cattle.
| 1563–4 Reg. Privy Council Scot. I. 259 The poindis takin thairfoir to be restorit to the said George. 1609 Skene Reg. Maj. i. 71 Gif ane takes ane poynde for debt, within ane other mans land, without licence of him, or of his Baillie. Ibid. ii. 12 The poynds..salbe reteined...in sic ane place pertaining to the poynder..quhere sic poynds or distresse may remaine and be keeped. 1676 Ld. Fountainhall in M. P. Brown Suppl. Dict. Decis. (1826) III. 61 Poinded goods,..if they be a dead poind, that puts the creditor poinder to no..expence in keeping it. 1813 N. Carlisle Topogr. Dict. Scot. II. s.v. Priestwick, Sometimes Poinds are driven, and executed at the Cross of Priestwick. 1868 J. Salmon Gowodean 63 (E.D.D.) Glad to catch him with your poind and horn. |
▪ II. poind, v. Sc.
(pynd, pɪnd)
Forms: α. 5–7 pund, 6 puind, pwynd. β. 5–8 poynd, 6– poind.
[Sc. repr. of OE. pyndan to enclose, shut in, impound, = Eng. pind. The u, ui, wy, symbolized the vowel (y), representing, as in build (Sc. byld), an OE. y. Of this, oi is a 16th c. spelling, retained in the law-courts. The Sc. pronunciation is (pynd) or (pɪnd: cf. mither, brither); (pɔɪnd), given in dictionaries, is merely founded on the spelling.]
1. trans. To distrain upon (a person or his goods); to seize and sell under warrant (the goods of a debtor): = pind v. 2.
| α a 1400 Burgh Laws iii. (Sc. Stat. I), Of punding of uplandis men in burgh. 1500 Exch. Rolls Scotl. XI. 393 To pund Thomas Fresale for viij li. vij s. vj d. 1531 Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scotl. VI. 54 To pas to pwynd the Shereff off Renfrew and utheris for restis of the chakkar. 1604 Urie Crt.-bk. (1892) 4 The transgressouris thairof to be punddit preceislie as is aboun wryttin. |
| β 1516 Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scotl. V. 85 To Dauid Lowry..to poynd xxxiij lordis and lardis absent fra the assis. 1564–5 Reg. Privy Council Scot. I. 317 Lettres to be direct to poind..the said complenaris and thair gudis for the soum of thre hundreth pund stirling. 1698 Min. Baron Crt. of Stitchell (1905) 132 He was poynding the defender at the instance of James Hoggart. 1786 Burns Twa Dogs 98 He'll apprehend them, poind their gear. a 1803 Lament Border-Widow iii. in Child Ballads iv. (1886) 429/2 He slew my knight, and poind his gear. 1886 Act 49 Vict. c. 23 §3 (2), The right to poind the ground hereinafter provided. |
b. absol. To distrain.
| α 1500 Exch. Rolls Scotl. XI. 457 Falyeing of the said preif the said schiref sal pund for the said thre termez. 1532 Aberdeen Regr. (1844) I. 146 Tha ordanit Henry Irvein, bailȝe,..gif neid beis, to cause puind for the same. |
| β 1545 Reg. Privy Council Scot. I. 21 Quhair his officiaris ar deforcit in poynding for the said taxt. 1641 Ferguson's Sc. Prov. (1785) §936 Ye may poind for debt but not for unkindness. |
2. To impound (stray cattle, contraband goods, etc.): = pind 1 b.
| [c 1450: see poinder.] 1536 Bellenden Cron. Scot. x. xii. (1541) 144/1 All othir beistis that eittis mennis corne or gres salbe poyndit quhil the awnar thairof redres the skaithis. 1637–50 Row Hist. Kirk (Wodrow Soc.) 9 What shall poore sillie sheep doe that are poyndit in a fold where there is no meat? 1678 Sir G. Mackenzie Crim. Laws Scot. i. xxvi. §ii. 259 The Customers Officers were about to poynd some unfree goods. 1815 Scott Guy M. vii, Their asses were poinded by the ground-officer when left in the plantation. |
† 3. intr. To plunder. Obs. rare.
| c 1425 Wyntoun Cron. viii. xliv. 6960 The qwhethir offt ryot wald thai ma To pryk, and poynd, bathe to and fra. |
Hence ˈpoinded ppl. a., ˈpoinding vbl. n. and ppl. a.: see also multiple-poinding.
| 1401 Aberdeen Regr. (1844) I. 380 Sa that hym nedit nocht in tyme to cum til mak sic pundyng and namly in our toon. 1540 Records of Elgin (New Spald. Cl.) I. 50 The vrangus punding of Robert Dauidsone. 1585 Reg. Privy Council Scot. IV. 10 Ane actioun and caus of double-poinding. 1676 Poinded [see poind n.]. 1678 Sir G. Mackenzie Crim. Laws Scot. i. xxvi. §iii. (1699) 131 Poyndings..cannot be execute after the Sun is set, because a Poynding is a sentence. 1746–7 Act 20 Geo. II, c. 43 §28 It shall..be lawful for the officer executing such poyndings, to carry the goods poynded..to the market cross. 1899 Scotsman 6 July, Notes of expenses of carrying through sales under sequestration or poindings, and also..of carrying back poinded or sequestrated effects. |