pinder
Plural: pinders
Noun
- An official who impounded stray animals in former times.
- A peanut, the nut-like pod containing the edible seed(s) of a leguminous plant.
- The plant, Arachis hypogaea, that bears peanuts.
- One who impounds; a poundkeeper.
Examples
- Like a PINDER, he carefully enclosed his opponent’s potential plays.
Origin / Etymology
Via Gullah from Kongo mpinda (“peanut”), also borrowed in Dutch as pinda.
Scrabble Score: 9
pinder: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordpinder: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
pinder: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 11
pinder: valid Words With Friends Word