pinfold

Example Sentences

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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 Carlyle, Thomas

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

It appears that in the village there was an ancient pound or pinfold which had degenerated into an unsightly dust-heap, and the old stocks had passed into private hands.

From Vanishing England by Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson)

Its earlier meaning is to hamper or entangle— "Confined and pestered in this pinfold here."

From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Weekley, Ernest

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