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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—P

Pinder

One who impounds cattle, or takes care of the cattle impounded; thus George-a-Green was the “Pinder of Wakefield,” and his encounter with Robin Hood, Scarlet, and Little John forms the subject of one of the Robin Hood ballads. (Anglo-Saxon pund, a fold.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
Pindorus
Pindaric Verse
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