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 Eileen Power
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.
From Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
I seed that one cow o' thine i' the pinfold ageän as I wur a-coomin' 'ere.
From Becket and other plays by Alfred Tennyson, Baron Tennyson
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 P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield
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 A Nonagenarian
