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n. - A pen where stray animals are confined.

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  • In almost every part of England when an animal strays, it is secured and put into what is called the "pinfold," and, if not claimed within a certain time, after a...
  • "pinfold," made by driving stakes into the sand so as to inclose a circular space about six feet in diameter.
  • 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.
  • Leaning against the bluffs hard by the camp is a low white cottage, with its paddock and pinfold, and the cattle are coming up, with bells toning irregularly as they...
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