▪ I. pind, v. Obs. exc. dial.
Forms: 1 (ᵹe)pyndan, 3 punde (ü), puinde, 5–6 pynd(e, 5, 9 dial. pind.
[OE. (ᵹe)pyndan (cf. also forpyndan to exclude, bar), f. *pund: see pound n.2, pond. Cf. ON. pynda to extort, torment (considered by Vigf. to be from OE.).]
† 1. trans. To shut up, enclose; to dam up (water). Obs. in gen. sense.
| c 897 K. ælfred Gregory's Past. C. xxxviii. 276 Ðæt wæter, ðonne hit bið ᵹepynd, hit miclað & uppað... Ac ᵹif sio pynding wierð onpennad..ðonne toflewð hit eall. [a 900 Cynewulf Crist 97 Þæt is euan scyld eal for-pynded.] a 1225 Ancr. R. 72 Þe water, hwon me punt [T. puindes] hit, & stoppeð. Ibid. 128 Nout ase swin ipünd ine sti uorte uetten. a 1400–50 Alexander 5487 Gogg and magogg þe grete he with þir gomes pyndis. 1483 Cath. Angl. 280/1 To Pynde, jncludere, trudere. |
b. spec. To put (beasts) in a pound, to impound.
| c 1290 St. Eustas 214 in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1881) 215 Weddes nimen and orf to puinde. 1441–2 in Finchale Priory (Surtees) 120 Ughtred..pynded the catell. c 1450 Holland Howlat 783 The pundar..Had pyndit all his pryss horss. 1533 Presentm. Juries in Surtees Misc. (1888) 34 To pynd no mans cattell frome hensfurth. |
† 2. To distrain: = poind v. Sc. Obs.
| 1478 Acta Audit. (1839) 59/2 Þ{supt} he sall..desist fra pinding of his said landis in tyme to cum. 1480 Acta Dom. Conc. (1839) 60/2 Þe saide Johne maxwell grantis þ{supt} þe said horse was Ridden efter he was pyndit. 1587 Reg. Privy Council Scot. IV. 162 Like as the personis foirsaidis..pyndis thair bestiall and guidis by all ordour of law. |
Hence ˈpinded ppl. a., ˈpinding vbl. n. (spec. in local use, in reference to sucking lambs: see quot. 1641).
| c 897 Pynding [see sense 1]. 1596 Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. i. 123 marg., Pinding. 1641 Best Farm. Bks. (Surtees) 11 Theire excremente..berke together theire tayles and hinder partes, and soe stoppe theire fundament; the sheapheardes phraise is that such lambes are pinded, and that they must bee sette att liberty. 1804 in Trans. Highl. Soc. Scotl. (1807) III. 350 Pinding is another disease exclusively confined to sucking lambs. |
▪ II. pind
obs. pa. tense and pple. of pin v., pine v.