pinfold

Example Sentences

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If I had thee in Lipsbury pinfold, I would make thee care for me.

From King Lear by Shakespeare, William

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 Nonagenarian, A

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

From Becket and other plays by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

Why, they must have been fairly starved on purpose; nay, they must have been in the pinfold all the time he had been laid up.

From Stories of Comedy by Johnson, Rossiter

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 Harman, Thomas T.