pinfold
Example Sentences
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The chapel has been long considered as common ground, my dear, and used for a pinfold, and what objection can we have to the man for employing what is his own to his own profit?
From My Aunt Margaret's Mirror by Sir Walter Scott
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
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
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
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
