pinfold
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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.
From Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
Hatted Herault leads his distressed flock, through their pinfold of a Tuileries again; across the Garden, to the Gate on the opposite side.
From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle
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.
From Recollections of Old Liverpool by A Nonagenarian
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
With shrilling bleat for comfort hie To every pinfold, humankind; Ah, there the fostering teat is dry, The stranger mother proves unkind.
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Charles Rogers
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