Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An enclosure where stray animals are confined.
- transitive verb To confine in or as if in a pinfold.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A place in which stray cattle are temporarily confined; a pound.
- noun A fold or inclosure for animals.
- To confine in a pound or pinfold; impound.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A place in which stray cattle or domestic animals are confined; a pound; a penfold.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An open
enclosure foranimals , especially an area wherestray animals were rounded up if their owners failed to properly supervise their use of common grazing land. - verb transitive To
confine animals in a pinfold.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a pen where stray animals are confined
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In almost every part of England when an animal strays, it is secured and put into what is called the "pinfold," and, if not claimed within a certain time, after a process of advertising, it is sold to pay fold dues.
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"pinfold," made by driving stakes into the sand so as to inclose a circular space about six feet in diameter.
Stories of New Jersey Frank Richard Stockton 1868
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If I had thee in Lipsbury pinfold, I would make thee care for me.
King Lear 2004
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His close-shaven crown, surrounded by a circle of stiff curled black hair, had something the appearance of a parish pinfold begirt by its high hedge.
Ivanhoe 2004
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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.
Recollections of Old Liverpool A Nonagenarian
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Indian pinfold, carrying death and distraction into the whole herd.
Nick of the Woods Robert M. Bird
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-- I loaned the brute one of my own critturs, just to be rid of him, and have him out of harm's way; for I had a forewarning, the brute, that his mouth war a-watering after the Dew beasts in the pinfold, and after the brown horse in partickelar!
Nick of the Woods Robert M. Bird
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Leaning against the bluffs hard by the camp is a low white cottage, with its paddock and pinfold, and the cattle are coming up, with bells toning irregularly as they feed and loiter on the way.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873 Various
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If I had thee in Lipsbury pinfold, I would make thee care for me.
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A similar custom exists in America with reference to slaves; the only difference being that the gaol is the slaves pinfold.
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