pinfold

Example Sentences

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For then she must think of the cow’s fodder and of the herdsman’s hire, flatter the heyward, defend herself when her cattle is shut up in the pinfold and moreover pay the damage.

From Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 by Power, Eileen

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 Nonagenarian, A

If I had thee in Lipsbury pinfold, I would make thee care for me.

From King Lear by Shakespeare, William

This line is attributive to ‘men.’ pestered ... pinfold, crowded together in this cramped space, the Earth.

From Milton's Comus by Bell, William

They hunted, an' they hollo'd, an' the next thing they did find Was a bull-calf in a pinfold, an' that too they left behind.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105 September 23, 1893 by Various