单词 | pinder |
释义 | pindern. A person in charge of impounding stray animals. Cf. pinner n.2, poinder n. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > holder of office > public officials > [noun] > official in charge of stray animals pindera1500 pinner1499 hog reeve1636 pound-keeper1671 field driver1694 hog constable1710 hog mace1792 poundmaster1897 the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > herding, pasturing, or confining > [noun] > pound-master pindera1500 pinner1499 poundmaster1762 1218–19 in B. Thuresson Middle Eng. Occup. Terms (1950) 108 Ric. le pynder. c1390 MS Vernon Homilies in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1877) 57 266 (MED) Eustas..dwelled in seruyse þore ffiftene wynter..ffor of þe Toun he was puyndere. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 400 Pyndare of beestys, inclusor. a1500 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 688/25 Inclusor, a pynder. ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. liv Than cometh the pynder and taketh him and putteth hym into the pynfolde. 1565–6 in P. A. Kennedy Notts. Househ. Inventories (1512–62) (1962) 91 To the Shepherd for his wages To the pindar at Muscham A paire of knives for Henry. 1632 (title) The Pinder of Wakefield: being the merry history of George a Greene the lusty pinder of the North. 1642 New Haven Colonial Rec. 82 A peny a head for goates and kids, half to the bringer in of the cattell & half to the pound, or if the pinder take all the paines he is to have all. 1693 Jamaica (Long Island) Rec. I. 145 He [was engaged] to be pinder to ye same and to have for Every hors or maire trespasing and brought to ye pound five pence. 1748 Defoe's Tour Great Brit. (ed. 4) III. 64 [At Nottingham] they have..two more [officers] called Pinders, one for the Fields, and the other for the Meadows. 1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 88 While pinders, that such chances look, Drive his rambling cows to pound. 1890 Herts Mercury 4 Jan. To continue the directions to the pinder not to allow any cattle beyond those belonging to the inhabitants of the old prescriptive borough to be depastured in Hartham. 1925 W. C. Bolland Man. Year Bk. Stud. iv. 102 Your pig might be killed at sight, by anyone in some places, in others, by the official pindar [sc. in the Middle Ages]. 1960 Times 9 July 8/6 Certain animals, to wit three ponies and five geese, continued to nibble on the Green in defiance of the edict. In due course all were rounded up by the pinder and his helpers, and placed in the village pound. 1999 Guardian 4 Dec. (Travel section) 6/1 Laxton... The last place in the country where Merrie England's farming practices survive, with their vocabulary of Court Leet, pinder and a jury to deal with sykes, flatts, tofts and wongs. 2014 Cambr. News (Electronic ed.) 26 Sept. Kieran Gentle, one of Cambridge City Council's four Pinders, said: ‘I got a call that a cow was in the river and when I got there it had already got up and out at the DoubleTree Hotel.’ This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1218 |
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