Pinfold

Alternative forms

• penfold

Origin

pen + fold

Full definition of pinfold

Noun

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.
• 1600 Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XIII, xx:These drawing near the wood, where close ypent
• The wicked sprites in sylvan pinfolds were...

Verb

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