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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.).
c1450Holland Howlat 783 The Corn Crake, the pundar at hand, Had pyndit all his pryss horss in a pundfald. 1609,1676[see poind n.]. 1805A. Scott Poems (1808) 146 The punder's axe, with ruthless rap, Fell'd down their favourite tree. Ibid. 147 For sure this tree's enormous trunk Defies the punder's axe. 1816Scott Antiq. xxiv, I'll..get my bit supper frae Ringan the poinder up by. 1886Act 49 Vict. c. 23 §3 (1) Any arrester or poinder..who shall be thus deprived of the benefit of his diligence. |