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