French: nickname from Old French pinard, a small medieval
coin, so called because it bore the device of a pine cone. The name
may have denoted someone who paid a rent of this amount; the term
seems also to have been used as a derogatory term for a rich man or
miser. This is a frequent name in New England.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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