Meanings noun poinder (plural poinders)
plural poinders
Scotland The keeper of a cattle pound ; a pinder . 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
1629, Thomas Adams, Sermons Scotland One who distrains property . The poinder no doubt is preferable at common law, because the assignment not being completed by intimation, the debtor continues still proprietor
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