pinfold

American  

[pin-fohld] / ˈpɪnˌfoʊld /

noun

1. a pound for stray animals.

2. a fold, as for sheep or cattle.

3. a place of confinement or restraint.

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verb (used with object)

1. to confine in or as in a pinfold.

pinfold British  

/ ˈpɪnˌfəʊld /

noun

1. 1. a pound for stray cattle

   2. a fold or pen for sheep or cattle

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verb

1. (tr) to gather or confine in or as if in a pinfold

Etymology

Origin of pinfold

1150–1200; late Middle English pynfold for *pindfold, equivalent to Old English pynd ( an ) to impound (derivative of pund pound ³ ) + fold ²; replacing Middle English po ( u ) n ( d ) fold ( e ), late Old English pundfald

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Example Sentences

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pinfold

The cottage at one corner of the Pool is the ancient pinfold, and the rent of it was paid to the lord of the manor. 

From Recollections of Old Liverpool by A Nonagenarian

The chapel has been long considered as common ground, my dear, and used for a pinfold, and what objection can we have to the man for employing what is his own to his own profit?

From My Aunt Margaret's Mirror by Sir Walter Scott

Pinfold Street takes its name from the "pound" or "pinfold" that existed there prior to 1752.

From Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham A History and Guide Arranged Alphabetically by Thomas T. Harman

I seed that one cow o' thine i' the pinfold ageän as I wur a-coomin' 'ere.

From Becket and other plays by Alfred Tennyson, Baron Tennyson

Oaths were not purpos'd more than law, To keep the good and just in awe, But to confine the bad and sinful, Like moral cattle, in a pinfold.

From Hudibras by Samuel Butler

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