Definitions for pinfolds

pinfolds pin·fold

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

Pinfolds is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 272 anagrams from letters in pinfolds (dfilnops).

Definitions for pinfolds

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 pinfolds

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

Examples for pinfolds

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for pinfolds
Scrable

13

Words with friends

16

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