pinfold
verbEtymology From Middle English pinfold, punfold, punfald, variants of Middle English pundfold, pundfald, from Old English pundfald (“pinfold”), equivalent to pound (“pen, enclosure”) + fold.
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To confine (animals) in a pinfold.
pinfold
nounEtymology From Middle English pinfold, punfold, punfald, variants of Middle English pundfold, pundfald, from Old English pundfald (“pinfold”), equivalent to pound (“pen, enclosure”) + fold.
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An open enclosure for animals, especially an area where stray animals were rounded up if their owners failed to properly supervise their use of common grazing land.
- These drawing near the wood, where close ypent / The wicked sprites in sylvan pinfolds were […]1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XIII, xx
- A little further along the road is the pinfold where stray animals were penned until claimed by their owners.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 331, about Redmire: