pinfold

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

From Becket and other plays by Alfred Tennyson, Baron Tennyson

Oaths were not purpos'd, more than law, To keep the good and just in awe, But to confine the bad and sinful, Like moral cattle, in a pinfold.

From Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations by Various

Its earlier meaning is to hamper or entangle— "Confined and pestered in this pinfold here."

From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Ernest Weekley

It meant no more than inconveniently crowded; thus Milton: “Confined and pestered in this pinfold here”.

From English Past and Present by Abram Smythe Palmer

Pinfold Street takes its name from the "pound" or "pinfold" that existed there prior to 1752.

From Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham A History and Guide Arranged Alphabetically by Thomas T. Harman