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Meaning of poinder | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

  1. The keeper of a cattle pound; a pinder.
    Scotland
  2. One who distrains property.
    Scotland

Examples

“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”
“The poinder no doubt is preferable at common law, because the assignment not being completed by intimation, the debtor continues still proprietor”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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