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pinder

name · noun · 5 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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  • CMU ARPABET: P AY1 N D ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

name

Meaning 1

A surname.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

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2

name

Meaning 2

A community in York County, New Brunswick, Canada.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

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3

noun

Meaning 3

A peanut, the nut-like pod containing the edible seed(s) of a leguminous plant.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Southern-US, US, dialectal, especially

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4

noun

Meaning 4

The plant, Arachis hypogaea, that bears peanuts.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Southern-US, US, dialectal, especially

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5

noun

Meaning 5

One who impounds; a poundkeeper.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: obsolete

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History

Etymology

Etymology tree Kongo mpindader. Gullah English pinder Via Gullah from Kongo mpinda (“peanut”), also borrowed in Dutch as pinda.

From Middle English pindere, pyndere, pundere, pendere, from Old English *pyndere, from Old English pyndan (“pen up”), from pund (“pound, enclosure”). Equivalent to pend (“to pen”) + -er.