pinfold

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They hunted, an' they hollo'd, an' the next thing they did find Was a bull-calf in a pinfold, an' that too they left behind.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105 September 23, 1893 by Various

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

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 Rogers, Charles

Another official surname especially connected with country life is Pinder, also found as Pinner, Pender, Penner, Ponder and Poynder, the man in charge of the pound or pinfold; cf.

From The Romance of Names by Weekley, Ernest

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 Carlyle, Thomas