pinfold
Example Sentences
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Its earlier meaning is to hamper or entangle— "Confined and pestered in this pinfold here."
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Ernest Weekley
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 Rossiter Johnson
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
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 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
