pinfold
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
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
Another official surname especially connected with country life is Pinder, also found as Pinner, Pender, Penner, Ponder and Poynder, the man in charge of the pound or pinfold; cf.
From The Romance of Names by Ernest Weekley
