"poundmaker" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "pound (“animal pound”) + maker. From translation of the Plains Amerind terms",
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          "word": "Poundmaker"
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        {
          "ref": "1973, Thomas F. Kehoe, The Gull Lake Site: A Prehistoric Bison Drive Site in Southwestern Saskatchewan",
          "text": "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 1948:16).",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1994, Katherine Pettipas, Severing the Ties That Bind: Government Repression of Indigenous Religious Ceremonies on the Prairies",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Janet Louise Swoboda Lunn, The Story of Canada",
          "text": "The best poundmakers in the band have done their work.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "One who makes buffalo pounds."
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        "(Canada, US, Amerind culture) One who makes buffalo pounds."
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          "word": "pitikwahanapiwiyin"
        }
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  "word": "poundmaker"
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      "word": "Poundmaker"
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  "etymology_text": "pound (“animal pound”) + maker. From translation of the Plains Amerind terms",
  "forms": [
    {
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        {
          "ref": "1973, Thomas F. Kehoe, The Gull Lake Site: A Prehistoric Bison Drive Site in Southwestern Saskatchewan",
          "text": "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 1948:16).",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1994, Katherine Pettipas, Severing the Ties That Bind: Government Repression of Indigenous Religious Ceremonies on the Prairies",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
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          "ref": "2016, Janet Louise Swoboda Lunn, The Story of Canada",
          "text": "The best poundmakers in the band have done their work.",
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