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pinfold

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pin·fold  (pnfld)
n.
An enclosure where stray animals are confined.
tr.v. pin·fold·ed, pin·fold·ing, pin·folds
To confine in or as if in a pinfold.
[Middle English pynfold, alteration of Old English pundfald : pund-, enclosure + fald, fold.]
pinfold [ˈpɪnˌfəʊld]
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Agriculture)
a.  a pound for stray cattle
b.  a fold or pen for sheep or cattle
vb
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Agriculture) (tr) to gather or confine in or as if in a pinfold
[Old English pundfald, from pound3 + fold2]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.pinfold - a pen where stray animals are confined
pen - an enclosure for confining livestock


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His close-shaven crown, surrounded by a circle of stiff curled black hair, had something the appearance of a parish pinfold begirt by its high hedge.
Ivanhoe by Scott, Walter View in context
He felt sure that she had been suffering from the strain and conflict of self-repression; and that she was likely now to feel herself only in another sort of pinfold than that from which she had been released.
Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context
If they are honest and do well, presently their neat new pinfold will be too strait and low, will crack, will lean, will rot and vanish, and the immortal light, all young and joyful, million-orbed, million- colored, will beam over the universe as on the first morning.
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