pinfold
Example Sentences
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Its earlier meaning is to hamper or entangle— "Confined and pestered in this pinfold here."
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Ernest Weekley
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 Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations by Various
Why, they must have been fairly starved on purpose; nay, they must have been in the pinfold all the time he had been laid up.
From Stories of Comedy by Rossiter Johnson
Then the bush was driven down into the opening; and all that it was necessary to do, was to dip into the pinfold and take out great handfuls of fish.
From Stories of New Jersey by Frank Richard Stockton
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
