pinfold
Example Sentences
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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
This line is attributive to ‘men.’ pestered ... pinfold, crowded together in this cramped space, the Earth.
From Milton's Comus by William Bell
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
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
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
