poundmaker

One who makes buffalo pounds.

Noun

  1. One who makes buffalo pounds.
    • A number of poundmakers have entered tribal history; their names are known and their deeds recounted. Such poundmakers include Loud Voice of the Plains Cree (Skinner 1914:525), and White Raven of the Assiniboin (Weekes...
    • Specialists known as poundmakers supervised the construction of a pound and possessed spiritual powers that enabled them to "call a herd" in for the kill. - 1994, Katherine Pettipas, Severing the Ties That Bind:...
    • The best poundmakers in the band have done their work. - 2016, Janet Louise Swoboda Lunn, The Story of Canada:

Origin

From pound (“animal pound”) + maker. From translation of the Plains Amerind terms.

Forms

poundmakers

Derived

Poundmaker