poinder

English

Etymology

From poind +‎ -er.

Noun

poinder (plural poinders)

1. (Scotland) The keeper of a cattle pound; a pinder.
   • 1629, Thomas Adams, Sermons:

     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

2. (Scotland) One who distrains property.
   • 1767, Lord Henry Home Kames, Principles of Equity:

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

References

• “poinder”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• prodine, proined, roped in