pinfold

Example Sentences

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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

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

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 Scott, Walter, Sir

This line is attributive to ‘men.’ pestered ... pinfold, crowded together in this cramped space, the Earth.

From Milton's Comus by Bell, William

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

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