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单词 poinder
释义

poinder

English

Etymology

poind + -er

Noun

poinder (plural poinders)

  1. (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
  2. (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

  • poinder in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Anagrams

  • prodine, proined, roped in
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