pinfold

Significado (Inglés)

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.

Sinónimos

corral

enclosure

fencing

fold

kindergarten

pen

🖊️

pit

yard

Etimología (Inglés)

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