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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The officer of a manor whose duty it was to impound stray cattle.
  • noun Same as pindal.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete One who impounds; a poundkeeper.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun obsolete One who impounds; a poundkeeper.

Etymologies

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Anglo-Saxon pyndan to pen up, from pund a pound.

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