pinfold
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Another official surname especially connected with country life is Pinder, also found as Pinner, Pender, Penner, Ponder and Poynder, the man in charge of the pound or pinfold; cf.
From The Romance of Names by Ernest Weekley
Hatted Herault leads his distressed flock, through their pinfold of a Tuileries again; across the Garden, to the Gate on the opposite side.
From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle
If I had thee in Lipsbury pinfold, I would make thee care for me.
From King Lear by William Shakespeare
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
It meant no more than inconveniently crowded; thus Milton: “Confined and pestered in this pinfold here”.
From English Past and Present by Abram Smythe Palmer
