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Definition of Pinfold
1. Noun. A pen where stray animals are confined.
Definition of Pinfold
1. n. A place in which stray cattle or domestic animals are confined; a pound; a penfold.
Definition of Pinfold
1. Noun. 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. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) To confine animals in a pinfold. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pinfold
1. to confine in an enclosure for stray animals [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pinfold
Literary usage of Pinfold
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell by Thomas Bayly Howell (1816)
"Sir Thomas pinfold, do you know my lord bishop of Peterborough's handwriting ?
... Sir T. pinfold. Truly, not very well ; I never saw but one letter from ..."
2. The Weekly Reporter by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords, Great Britain. Privy Council, Great Britain. Supreme Court of Judicature (1892)
"The mortgage deed, which iras dated the 1st of September, 1886, contained a
recital that the defendants had agreed to make pinfold further «dvances to the ..."
3. Correspondence of William Pitt, when Secretary of State, with Colonial by William Pitt, Gertrude Selwyn Kimball, Great Britain Foreign Office (1906)
"pinfold. Sir, 1 In October a long conference was held between the governor ...
Charles pinfold, doctor of civil law, was appointed governor of Barbados in ..."
4. Contested Etymologies in the Dictionary of the Rev. W. W. Skeat by Hensleigh Wedgwood (1882)
"It is, as it appears to me, a fatal objection to the foregoing account, that
forms exactly corresponding to pinfold, pound, and pindar, but based on a ..."
5. Aberystwyth and Its Court Leet by George Eyre Evans (1902)
"1733 E. We present the common pound or pinfold of this town And liberty to be
out of repair. Ibid. We present John David Morgan of this town for ..."
6. Records of the Borough of Nottingham: Being a Series of Extracts from the by Nottingham (England). (1900)
"Centry house and pinfold.—It is Agreed, the Centry-house at the bridges to bee
taken downe, and it and the pinfold to bee sett at the ..."
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