poinder
English
editEtymology
editNoun
editpoinder (plural poinders)
- (Scotland) The keeper of a cattle pound; a pinder.
- 1629, Thomas Adams, Sermons:
- So Caius Gracchus defends the treasury from others' violence, whiles himself robbed it; so the poinder chafes and swears to see beasts in the corn, yet will pull up a stake, or cut a tether, to find supply for his pin-fold
- (Scotland) One who distrains property.
- 1767, Lord Henry Home Kames, Principles of Equity:
- The poinder no doubt is preferable at common law, because the assignment not being completed by intimation, the debtor continues still proprietor
References
edit- “poinder”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.