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Pinfold

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.

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📖 Definitions 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.

verb

1
To confine (animals) in a pinfold.

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Pinfold"

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Word	Definition
foldyardnoun	An enclosure for sheep or cattle.
paddocknoun	(also figuratively) A small enclosure or field of grassland, especially one used to exercise or graze horses or other animals.
lambfoldnoun	An enclosure for keeping lambs.
straynoun	Any domestic animal that lacks an enclosure, proper place, or company, but that instead wanders at large or is lost; an estray.
poundnoun	A unit of mass equal to 16 avoirdupois ounces (= 453.592 g). Today this value is the most common meaning of "pound" as a unit of weight.
foldnoun	An act of folding.
corralnoun	An enclosure for livestock, especially a circular one.
feedlotnoun	(US) Land on which livestock are fattened for market.
puddocknoun	Obsolete spelling of paddock. [(also figuratively) A small enclosure or field of grassland, especially one used to exercise or graze horses or other animals.]
pickverb	To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.
pasturenoun	Land, specifically, an open field, on which livestock is kept for feeding.
rangenoun	A line or series of mountains, buildings, etc.
trap yardnoun	(Australia) An enclosure into which wild cattle, horses or other animals can be driven.
pasturelandnoun	Land used for pasture, on which livestock can graze.
stellnoun	A stall; a fold for cattle.
hopplenoun	(chiefly in the plural) A fetter for horses or cattle when turned out to graze.
paddockfulnoun	As much as a paddock (field of grassland) will hold.
deerfoldnoun	A fold or park for deer.
sheepfoldnoun	An enclosure for keeping sheep.
feedgroundnoun	The place where a specified animal feeds