An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language / in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals

by John Jamieson

PODLE, s. A tadpole, S.; Teut. podde, a frog.

PODLIE, PODLEY, s.
1. The fry of the coal fish, Loth., Fife, Orkn.
Statist. Acc.
2. The green-backed pollack, Loth., Fife.
Sibbald.
3. The true pollack, or Gadus pollachius, S.; Fland. pudde, mustela piscis.

PODEMAKRELL, s. A bawd.
Douglas.

Fr. putte, meretrix, and maquerelle, lena.

POID, s.
V. [Pod].
Pal. Hon.

To POIND, POYND, v. a.
1. To distrain, S., a forensic term.
Bellenden.
2. To seize in warfare.
Wyntown.

A. S. pynd-an, to shut up; Germ. pfand-en, to distrain.

Poynd, Pownd, s.
1. That which is distrained, S.
Stat. Rob. I.
2. The prey taken in an inroad.
Wynt.

Poindable, adj. Liable to be distrained, S.
Erskine.

Poinding, s. The act of poinding, S.