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ponde1 (1190)

ponde1 (1190)

pond,  pound,  pounde,  punde  
  FEW: Gdf: GdfC: TL: DEAF: DMF: TLF: OED:  poind n.  / pound n.2  MED:  pounde n.2  DMLBS:  pons 2 2344b / pundum 2 2578a
ls(loanword: M.E. )
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s.

1livestockpound, pen, enclosure for keeping cattle
( 1366 )  qu’il list as ditz seigniors a mener ové eux en lour pounde lez ditz bestes  Stats and Ords Ireland 444.12
( c.1420-89 )  si le visount [...] entra en le pound celui que ad retorne e fait replegiare [...]  Readings i 234.n2
2livestockanimals or other possessions seized in plunder or distraint
( 1381-82 )  lui prist et autres plusours de ses gentz [...] a cause d’une punde pur niefs d’Escoce od plusours marchandis en ycels  Rot Parl1 iii 129
( 1414-15 )  les gentz le dit William chivaucherent sur les Escotz et pristrent une ponde pur la quele ponde le Counte de Northumbr' fist le dit William paier trois centz et vint boefs et vaches, mill et sis centz motons, et cent livres en moneie, a les Escotz  Rot Parl1 iii 255
( 1415 )  par l'ou devant fesance del dit ordinance, principale remedy dez ditz suppliantz fuit de prendre un punde ou destres pur un autre pur defaute de redresse dez enmys d'Escoce  Rot Parl1 iv 68.10
3 name (used as a surname)
( 1190 )  William del Pond  Family Names Pond
( 1203 )  John de la Ponde  Family Names Pond

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See also:

pountbreche 
This is an AND2 Phase 4 (N-O/U-P-Q) entry. © 2013-17 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. All rights reserved. Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
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