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Webster 1913 Edition
Pinfold
Webster 1828 Edition
Pinfold
PIN'FOLD
,Noun.
A place in which beasts are confined. We now call it a pound.
Definition 2024
pinfold
pinfold
English
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Noun
pinfold (plural pinfolds)
- 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.
- 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XIII, xx:
- 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:
Verb
pinfold (third-person singular simple present pinfolds, present participle pinfolding, simple past and past participle pinfolded)
- (transitive) To confine animals in a pinfold.