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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PIN'FOLD, n. [pin or pen and fold; Eng. to pound.]
A place in which beasts are confined. We now call it a pound.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a pen where stray animals are confined

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English pundfald, from pund- enclosure + fald fold Date: 13th century 1. pound II,1a 2. a place of restraint

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & v. --n. a pound for stray cattle etc. --v.tr. confine (cattle) in a pinfold. Etymology: OE pundfald (as POUND(3), FOLD(2))

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Pinfold Pin"fold`, n. [For pindfold. See Pinder, Pound an inclosure, and Fold an inclosure.] A place in which stray cattle or domestic animals are confined; a pound; a penfold. --Shak. A parish pinfold begirt by its high hedge. --Sir W. Scott.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. [Written also Penfold.] Pound, pen.