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- noun Plural form of
pinder .
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Examples
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In quite a variety of places we meet with pound-keepers, pound-drivers, and pinders; and the hayward also has been found in as many as fifteen different towns.
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Well, you does not know how to make polish out of pinders.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 1 Work Projects Administration
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Of all these only the two pinders are now appointed to deal with stray cattle, and the sole use of the court at the present time is that of the enforcement of the clearing out of the drains and ditches on the Duchy property.
The Evolution of an English Town Gordon Home 1923
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* Our chocolate was made in this wise: Peanuts, or pinders, or goobers, as they were variously called, were roasted and the skin slipped off.
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These nuts are known in the parts where they are produced by the various euphonious names of ground-peas, pea-nuts, ground-nuts, pinders and gubers.
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American Indians; and, above all, a vast collection of lethal weapons of every kind and from every place -- Chinese "high pinders," double knives,
Lair of the White Worm Bram Stoker 1879
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At night was at Lucas's a few minutes -- parched pinders.
Diary of Jason Niles (1814-1894) : June 22, 1861-December 31, 1864, 1864
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Indians; and, above all, a vast collection of lethal weapons of every kind and from every place — Chinese “high pinders,” double knives, Afghan double-edged scimitars made to cut a body in two, heavy knives from all the Eastern countries, ghost daggers from Thibet, the terrible kukri of the Ghourka and other hill tribes of India, assassins’ weapons from Italy and
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