Synonyms for pinfold
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : pin-fohld |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈpɪnˌfoʊld |
Définition of pinfold
- As in cage : noun enclosure with bars
- 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
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