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poinder
English
Etymology
poind +? -er
Noun
poinder (plural poinders)
- (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
- 1629, Thomas Adams, Sermons
- (Scotland) One who distrains property.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Jamieson to this entry?)
Anagrams
- prodine, proined, roped in
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ponder
English
Etymology
From Middle English ponderen, from Old French ponderer (“to weigh, balance, ponder”) from Latin ponderare (“to weigh, ponder”), from pondus (“weight”), from pendere (“to weigh”); see pendent and pound.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?p?n.d?(?)/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?p?n.d?/
- Rhymes: -?nd?(?)
Verb
ponder (third-person singular simple present ponders, present participle pondering, simple past and past participle pondered)
- To wonder, think of deeply.
- To consider (something) carefully and thoroughly.
- Synonyms: chew over, mull over; see also Thesaurus:ponder
- (obsolete) To weigh.
Related terms
Translations
Noun
ponder (plural ponders)
- (colloquial) A period of deep thought.
Further reading
- ponder in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- ponder in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- Penrod, proned
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