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 process of advertising, it is sold to pay fold dues.    From Wordnik.com.  [Uncle Tom's Companions: Or, Facts Stranger Than Fiction. A Supplement to Uncle Tom's Cabin: Being Startling Incidents in the Lives of Celebrated Fugitive Slaves.] Reference

"pinfold," made by driving stakes into the sand so as to inclose a circular space about six feet in diameter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories of New Jersey] Reference

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 Wordnik.com.  [Recollections of Old Liverpool] Reference

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 feed and loiter on the way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873] Reference

I loaned the brute one of my own critturs, just to be rid of him, and have him out of harm's way; for I had a forewarning, the brute, that his mouth war a-watering after the Dew beasts in the pinfold, and after the brown horse in partickelar!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nick of the Woods] Reference

pinfold-street, from a pinfold at No. 85, removed in 1752.    From Wordnik.com.  [An History of Birmingham (1783)] Reference

If I had thee in Lipsbury pinfold, I would make thee care for me.    From Wordnik.com.  [King Lear] Reference

I seed that one cow o 'thine i' the pinfold ageän as I wur a-coomin '' ere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Becket and other plays] Reference

Like sheep hounded into their pinfold; bleating for mercy, where is no mercy, but only a whetted knife?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Revolution] Reference

This line is attributive to 'men.' ~pestered ... pinfold~, crowded together in this cramped space, the Earth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Milton's Comus] Reference

An old pinfold, or rather a modern pinfold, constructed out of the ancient chapel, is all that attests its former sanctity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford] Reference

A similar custom exists in America with reference to slaves; the only difference being that the gaol is the slaves pinfold.    From Wordnik.com.  [Uncle Tom's Companions: Or, Facts Stranger Than Fiction. A Supplement to Uncle Tom's Cabin: Being Startling Incidents in the Lives of Celebrated Fugitive Slaves.] Reference

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 Wordnik.com.  [Stories of Comedy] Reference

He was a servant of corruption, holding a candle to disorderly walkers and happy sinners on their way into the devil's pinfold.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Manxman A Novel - 1895] Reference

Hatted Herault leads his distressed flock, through their pinfold of a Tuileries again; across the Garden, to the Gate on the opposite side.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Revolution] Reference

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 Wordnik.com.  [Ivanhoe] Reference

Shut in horrid pinfold of death, the Senhora smuggles out to her red-gloomy Tallien the most pressing entreaties and conjurings: Save me; save thyself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Revolution] Reference

It appears that in the village there was an ancient pound or pinfold which had degenerated into an unsightly dust-heap, and the old stocks had passed into private hands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vanishing England] Reference

He had even been known to breakfast with his head tied up in a handkerchief when some domestic crisis had supervened, such as the escape of all the horses from the pinfold, to call away his barber.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Frontiersmen] Reference

He felt sure that she had been suffering from the strain and conflict of self-repression; and that she was likely now to feel herself only in another sort of pinfold than that from which she had been released.    From Wordnik.com.  [Middlemarch] Reference

Sweeping the water with these, they slowly advanced toward the pinfold, driving swarms of herring before them, and so surrounding the frightened fish, that they had no way of escape, except by rushing through the entrance of the pinfold.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories of New Jersey] Reference

You mistake; I mean the pound, — a pinfold.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Two Gentlemen of Verona] Reference

"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 Wordnik.com.  [My Aunt Margaret's Mirror] Reference

To every pinfold, humankind.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century] Reference

Like moral cattle, in a pinfold.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hudibras] Reference

But his pledge goes to the pinfold. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [English Songs and Ballads] Reference

But his pledge goes to the pinfold, '.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Jolly Pinder of Wakefield] Reference

Within the pinfold of his own conceit.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE PRELUDE BOOK FIFTH] Reference

Confined and pestered in this pinfold here.    From Wordnik.com.  [Milton] Reference

You mistake; I mean the pound, -- a pinfold.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Two Gentlemen of Verona] Reference

ProYou mistake: I mean the pound, —a pinfold.    From Wordnik.com.  [Act I. Scene I. The Two Gentlemen of Verona] Reference

Cartoon via pouk's pinfold.    From Wordnik.com.  [UUpdates - All updates] Reference