pinfold

Meanings

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.

Verb

• To confine (animals) in a pinfold.

Origin

• From Middle English pinfold, punfold, punfald, variants of Middle English pundfold, pundfald, from Old English pundfald, equivalent to pound + fold.