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ˈpoinder Sc. Also 5 pundar, 9 -er. [f. poind v. + -er1.] A person, esp. an official, who poinds or distrains goods; also, b. ‘A person who has the charge of hedges, woods, etc., and who pounds cattle that trespass’ (Jam.).c 1450 Holland Howlat 783 The Corn Crake, the pundar at hand, Had pyndit all h...
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poindlar
† poindlar, pundler Sc. Obs. Also 7 poundler, 8 punler. [A parallel form of poinder, with changed suffix. Cf. pantler.] = poinder.1533 Aberdeen Regr. (1844) I. 149 The prouest, bailȝeis, and counsaill,..ordanit Georg. Annan pvndler of thar kirk yard, and ordanit the pundlene of euery best to be four...
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punde
▪ I. pund, pundar obs. ff. poind, poinder.▪ II. pund(e, -age obs. or dial. ff. pound, -age.
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poind
▪ 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. ...
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pounder
▪ I. † ˈpounder, n.1 Obs. Forms: 5 pounder, pondre, punder. [app. f. pound n.1; perh. in reference to the fact that the auncel had at its end a knob of a pound weight as a counterpoise (see quot. a 1640 in auncel). But it is also possible that the word in the form pondre was immediately from L. pond...
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