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Etymology

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pound +‎ keeper

Noun

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poundkeeper (plural poundkeepers)

  1. The keeper of a pound.(place for the detention of stray or wandering animals.)

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for poundkeeper”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)