pind

Pronunciation: /pɪnd/

The English word “pind” has 2 meanings listed here.

verb

To impound (as cattle), to shut up in a pound.
To confine within narrow limits, constrain.

Etymology

From Middle English pinden, penden, punden (also as poynen), from Old English *pyndan, ġepyndan (“to impound, shut up, inclose”), from Proto-West Germanic *pundijan (“to impound”). Doublet of poind. Related also to pond.

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