Noun: pinfold
| Singular | pinfold |
| Plural | pinfolds |
Sample Sentences
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These drawing near the wood, where close ypent / The wicked sprites in sylvan pinfolds were […] [1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XIII, xx]
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A little further along the road is the pinfold where stray animals were penned until claimed by their owners. [1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 331, about Redmire:]
Nouns inflected like pinfold
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English pinfold, punfold, punfald, variants of Middle English pundfold, pundfald, from Old English pundfald (“pinfold”), equivalent to pound (“pen, enclosure”) + fold. See: Old English Nouns '
pundfald'.