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 Weekley, Ernest

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 Johnson, Rossiter

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 Power, Eileen

If I had thee in Lipsbury pinfold, I would make thee care for me.

From King Lear by Shakespeare, William

I seed that one cow o' thine i' the pinfold ageän as I wur a-coomin' 'ere.

From Becket and other plays by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron