pinfold
An open enclosure for animals, especially an area where stray animals were rounded up…An open enclosure for animals, especially an area where stray animals were rounded up if their owners failed to properly supervise their use of common grazing land.
Meaning
1 sensesAn open enclosure for animals, especially an area where stray animals were rounded up if their owners failed to properly supervise their use of common grazing land.
a pen where stray animals are confined
Origin
From Middle English pinfold, punfold, punfald, variants of Middle English pundfold, pundfaFrom Middle English pinfold, punfold, punfald, variants of Middle English pundfold, pundfald, from Old English pundfald (“pinfold”), equivalent to pound (“pen, enclosure”) + fold.
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