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Pinfold

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pin⋅fold

  [pin-fohld]
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–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)
4. to confine in or as in a pinfold.
Origin:
1150–1200; late ME pynfold for *pindfold, equiv. to OE pynd(an) to impound (deriv. of pund pound 3 ) + fold 2 ; r. ME po(u)n(d)fold(e), late OE pundfald
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pin·fold   (pĭn'fōld')   
n.  An enclosure where stray animals are confined.
tr.v.   pin·fold·ed, pin·fold·ing, pin·folds
To confine in or as if in a pinfold.

[Middle English pynfold, alteration of Old English pundfald : pund-, enclosure + fald, fold.]
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