Poinder
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Poinder is a noun meaning (Scotland) The keeper of a cattle pound; a pinder.
Meaning
(Scotland) The keeper of a cattle pound; a pinder.
More Meanings
- (Scotland) One who distrains property.
Example Sentences
The poinder no doubt is preferable at common law, because the assignment not being completed by intimation, the debtor continues still proprietor
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
Word Forms
- poinders
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include pinder, pinner, pindar, poundkeeper, pinda, potager.
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