pinfold

Example Sentences

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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

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

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

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 Hudibras by Butler, Samuel

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