Definitions for pinfold

pinfold pin·fold

Spelling: [pin-fohld]
IPA: /ˈpɪnˌfoʊld/

Pinfold is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 155 anagrams from letters in pinfold (dfilnop).

Definitions for pinfold

noun

  1. a pound for stray animals.
  2. a fold, as for sheep or cattle.
  3. a place of confinement or restraint.

verb (used with object)

  1. to confine in or as in a pinfold.

Origin of pinfold

1150-1200; late Middle English pynfold for *pindfold, equivalent to Old English pynd(an) to impound (derivative of pund pound3) + fol

Examples for pinfold

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.

It meant no more than inconveniently crowded; thus Milton: Confined and pestered in this pinfold here.

He was a servant of corruption, holding a candle to disorderly walkers and happy sinners on their way into the devil's pinfold.

Would you have Providence to shoot you here sitting, like so many hares hunted into a pinfold?

Amelius went back to the cottage, to see if Toff had returned, in his absence, before he paid his daily visit to Surgeon pinfold.

Was a bull-calf in a pinfold, an' that too they left behind.

Surgeon pinfold was prescribing for a row of sick people, seated before him on a bench.

pinfold Street takes its name from the "pound" or "pinfold" that existed there prior to 1752.

Who is not sick of our long confinement in that pinfold there?

pinfold is a pound for cattle; but no place of the name of Lipsbury is known.

Word Value for pinfold
Scrable

13

Words with friends

16

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