pinfold
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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 Thomas Carlyle
If I had thee in Lipsbury pinfold, I would make thee care for me.
From King Lear by William Shakespeare
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
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
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
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