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单词 poinder
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poindern.

Brit. /ˈpɪndə/, /ˈpɔɪndə/, U.S. /ˈpɪndər/, /ˈpɔɪndər/, Scottish English /ˈpɪndər/
Forms: pre-1700 poindar, pre-1700 poynder, pre-1700 1700s– poinder.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: poind v., -er suffix1.
Etymology: < poind v. + -er suffix1. Compare earlier pinder n., pounder n.3
Scottish.
1. A person charged with maintaining and protecting hedges, woodlands, enclosures, etc., and impounding livestock that trespass within them. Cf. pounder n.3 Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping of cattle > [noun] > hunting strayed cattle > one who pounds stray cattle
poinder1520
poundler1533
pounder1622
1520 Dumfr. & Galloway Soc. 39 61 Cheis ane poinder to keep it and he to haiff iiij d. of ilk beist that is gottin vther on the corn or the gyrs and ony hous to be ane sufficient pundfald.
1816 W. Scott Antiquary II. ix. 248 I'll..get my bit supper frae Ringan the poinder up by.
1872–3 Chambers's Encycl. 625/1 The poinder must..take care to keep the cattle in a proper place, and feed them.
2. A person who poinds or distrains goods; an official who carries out or oversees acts of poinding.
ΘΚΠ
society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > legal seizure or recovery of property > [noun] > seizing lands or goods > attachment of person or property for debt > seizure of goods > one who seizes goods for debt
distrainant1553
poinder1574
poindlar1583
distrainer1607
pounder1660
distrainor1767
1574 in M. Smith Burgh Rec. Glasgow (1832) 14 James Speir is creat poynder for this present ȝeir.
1609 J. Skene tr. Regiam Majestatem ii. 12 The poynds..salbe reteined..in sic ane place pertaining to the poynder..quhere sic poynds or distresse may remaine and be keeped.
1676 in Fountainhall's Decisions in M. P. Brown Suppl. Dict. Decisions Court of Session (1826) III. 61 Poinded goods,..if they be a dead poind, that puts the creditor poinder to no..expence in keeping it.
1770 J. M. Dreghorn Information for Mungo Campbell 115 To this the panel answers..that if such poinding were attempted by force, and the poinder warned of..his danger, the homicide would at least be excusable, so as to amount to no more than manslaughter.
1886 Act 49 Vict. c. 23 §3 (1) Any arrester or poinder..who shall be thus deprived of the benefit of his diligence.
2000 Mail on Sunday (Nexis) 5 Nov. 116 It appears that they are some kind of debt collectors, or poinders. On this occasion, they were trying to get hold of a football club and doubtless they will do so.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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