Home > Synonyms > Synonyms for pinfold

Find the synonyms or antonyms of a word



Synonyms for pinfold

Grammar : Noun
Spell : pin-fohld
Phonetic Transcription : ˈpɪnˌfoʊld


Définition of pinfold

  • As in cage : noun enclosure with bars
Example sentences :
  • Who is not sick of our long confinement in that pinfold there?
  • Extract from : « Stories from the Iliad » by H. L. Havell
  • Was a bull-calf in a pinfold, an' that too they left behind.
  • Extract from : « Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105 September 23, 1893 » by Various
  • It meant no more than inconveniently crowded; thus Milton: Confined and pestered in this pinfold here.
  • Extract from : « English Past and Present » by Richard Chevenix Trench
  • Surgeon Pinfold was prescribing for a row of sick people, seated before him on a bench.
  • Extract from : « The Fallen Leaves » by Wilkie Collins
  • Amelius went back to the cottage, to see if Toff had returned, in his absence, before he paid his daily visit to Surgeon Pinfold.
  • Extract from : « The Fallen Leaves » by Wilkie Collins
  • Pinfold is a pound for cattle; but no place of the name of Lipsbury is known.
  • Extract from : « The Shakespeare-Expositor: An Aid to the Perfect Understanding of Shakespeare's Plays » by Thomas Keightley
  • He was a servant of corruption, holding a candle to disorderly walkers and happy sinners on their way into the devil's pinfold.
  • Extract from : « The Manxman » by Hall Caine
  • Pinfold Street takes its name from the "pound" or "pinfold" that existed there prior to 1752.
  • Extract from : « Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham » by Thomas T. Harman and Walter Showell
  • Would you have Providence to shoot you here sitting, like so many hares hunted into a pinfold?
  • Extract from : « Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) » by Thomas Carlyle
  • 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.
  • Extract from : « Stories of Comedy » by Various

Most wanted synonyms

Based on : Thesaurus.com - Gutenberg.org - Dictionary.com - Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019