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pinfold

pinfold noun: an open enclosure for animals, especially an area where stray animals were rounded up if their owners failed to properly supervise their use of common grazing land.

Noun

pinfold (plural pinfolds)

  1. An open enclosure for animals, especially an area where stray animals were rounded up if their owners failed to properly supervise their use of common grazing land.
    • These drawing near the wood, where close ypent / The wicked sprites in sylvan pinfolds were […]1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XIII, xx
    • A little further along the road is the pinfold where stray animals were penned until claimed by their owners.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 331, about Redmire

Verb

pinfold (third-person singular simple present pinfolds, present participle pinfolding, simple past and past participle pinfolded)

  1. (transitive) To confine (animals) in a pinfold.

pinfold meaning in Malayalam

pinfold in Malayalam

കന്നുകാലി പൗണ്ട്, ഗോശാല, വേലിക്കെട്ട്

Forms of pinfold

Noun
pluralpinfolds
alternative formpenfold
Verb
third-person singular presentpinfolds
present participlepinfolding
past participlepinfolded
pastpinfolded

Origin of pinfold

From Middle English pinfold, punfold, punfald, variants of Middle English pundfold, pundfald, from Old English pundfald (“pinfold”), equivalent to pound (“pen, enclosure”) + fold.

Questions about pinfold

What does pinfold mean?
Pinfold means an open enclosure for animals, especially an area where stray animals were rounded up if their owners failed to properly supervise their use of common grazing land.
What is pinfold in Malayalam?
Pinfold in Malayalam is കന്നുകാലി പൗണ്ട്, ഗോശാല, വേലിക്കെട്ട്. See Pinfold meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is pinfold?
Pinfold can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of pinfold?
The plural of pinfold is pinfolds.

Words near pinfold in the dictionary

  1. pinfinger
  2. pinfire
  3. pinfires
  4. pinfish
  5. pinfishes
  6. pinfold
  7. pinfolded
  8. pinfolding
  9. pinfolds
  10. ping
  11. ping pong

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pinfold (page history and authors); pinfold (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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