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▪ I. pundlar1 local.
Also 7 poundlar, 7–9 pundler.
[Altered form of ON. pundari steelyard, f. pund pound n.1 (weight).]
The name given in Orkney and Shetland to the steelyard or Danish balance with movable fulcrum.
1628in G. Barry Orkney Isl. App. (1805) 473 That every pundlar be justed and made equal with the King's pundlar. 1693Wallace Orkney 93 Pundler, a Beam marked with the marks of their weight, which hath a stone on the one end, and a Hook at the other end for hinging up the Cassie [basket]. 1898Shetl. News 26 Mar. (E.D.D.), From very early times it [the Bysmar] was with the Pundlar the universal steelyard, or weighing machine of Scandinavia.
▪ II. pundlar2
variant of poindlar Sc. Obs. |