pinfold
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The chapel has been long considered as common ground, my dear, and used for a pinfold, and what objection can we have to the man for employing what is his own to his own profit?
From My Aunt Margaret's Mirror 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
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
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 Thomas T. Harman
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