Meaning of poinder | Babel Free

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”

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