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pinfoldn.Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: pound n.2, fold n.2; pind v., fold n.2 Etymology: Partly < pound n.2 + fold n.2, and partly < pind v. + fold n.2 Compare post-classical Latin pundfalda , puntfalda , puntfauda , punfalda , punfauda , also pondfalda , pondfolda , ponfalda , punfaudus , and (compare β. forms) pinfalda , pinfaldus , pinfoldus (all 13th cent. in British sources), and also Anglo-Norman ponefaude , pounfaude , pinfaude (end of 13th cent. or earlier), all ultimately borrowings from Middle English. Compare penfold n.In β. forms such as pinfold perhaps altered after pin v.2; compare pin v.2 With the γ. forms compare poind v., poind n. The δ. forms are reduced forms of the α. forms with assimilation of consonants. the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal enclosure or house general > [noun] > enclosure > fold or pen > pound α. a1170 (?OE) Bounds (Sawyer 689) in S. E. Kelly (2001) 365 Of þam pytte on haccan pund fald, of haccan pund falde oþ eft on þæt efer fearn. 1227 ( Bounds (Sawyer 1033) in D. Hooke (1994) 208 Þannon on pundfald. 1300 in (1836) III. 116 (MED) Et sic directe usque le Pundefold. 1361–2 in K. C. Newton (1960) 71 (MED) [In payment of John Pirie hired for 6 days to enclose anew] le Pountfolde [with palings]. 1433–4 in R. E. G. Kirk (1892) 154 (MED) [In felling thorns and carrying from the Lord's wood for making the Lord's] ponfald [..4 s.]. a1525 (c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat l. 783 in W. A. Craigie (1925) II. 119 Ye pundar..Had pyndit all his pryss horss in a pundfald. 1579 in J. Barmby (1896) 1 Payde to Rycharde Robinson one day for maykyn clene the punfolde. 1672 No. 59 The fourtnight he kepped them [sc. the cows] in ane unlawfull pondfold. 1825 J. T. Brockett Pun-faud, or pin-faud, a pinfold. 1903 B. Kirkby in IV. 648/1 [Westmorland] Let's gang an' lake i' t' punfold. β. 1374 in J. L. Fisher (1968) 27/1 Pinfald.1408 in W. H. Stevenson (1883) II. 64 Willelmus Whytehals pro fractione pynfold.c1450 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker (1884) I. 590/12 Interclusorium, a pyndefolde.?1523 J. Fitzherbert f. liv If thy horse breke his tedure..than cometh the pynder and taketh him and putteth hym into the pynfolde.1589 J. Lyly sig. Ev I thinke them woorth..for their scabbednes to bee thrust from the pinfolde.1628 E. Coke 47 b He that distraines anything that hath life, must impound them..in a pinfold.1664 S. Butler ii. ii. 82 But to confine the Bad and Sinful Like Moral Cattle in a Pinfold.1723 H. Rowlands x. 121 If any of them [sc. the King's Tenants] were found to stray..to drive them back, like Beasts to their Pinfolds.1796 J. Morse (new ed.) II. 439 They resort to the caves..where they sleep in crowds like sheep in a pinfold.1823 T. Bewick (1975) ix. 87 He had driven it [sc. a pony] before him into the pinfold.1899 A. White Introd. 10 In the..ten provinces of Poland..the Jews are confined as in a pinfold.1919 S. J. Weyman xxxvi. 338 The home of his fathers, the land of field and stubble, of plough and pinfold.1974 (Brit. Libr. Sound Archive) (Survey Eng. Dial.: C908) (MS transcript) Track 9 In that time, there used to be what was called the pinfold. Any loose cattle running about were taken into the pinfold.1996 26 July 7/1 The sheepfolds, washfolds and pinfolds have been planned to traditional Cumbrian design.γ. 1494 in T. Thomson (1839) 185/1 Anent..doune castin of xii Rudis of dik of þe said Samellis landis, and doune castin of the poyndfalt of Akinbar.1606 W. Birnie vi. sig. B4v For our Kirk-courtes or yardes, are become more lyke pwind-folds nor burials: as being ordinarly bedunged by..pasturing brute.1754 Caledonian Mercury 12 Feb. in (1968) VII. 195/3 There are several Core Houses and a Poind Fold.1811 in A. Steel (1933) 191 They resolved to enclose the same with a stone dyke and to lay off a part of it for a poind fold.1902 Banffshire Jrnl. 28 Jan. in (1968) at Poind A poyndfold is a fold in which cattle were confined. as being poinded or distrained.δ. 1672 in W. Cramond (1890) 32 The kirk dyk was altogether ruined and the church yeard..resembled a pumfell.1871 W. Alexander xxxv The tod, or a set o’ cairds rinkin aboot the pumphel.1906 J. Christie 11 Near where the rustic pumphil stood.1955 W. P. Milne ii. 13 They [sc. sheep] war a’ richt..i the lythe o’ the wa’s o’ the pumfle.society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > confinement > [noun] > place of confinement c1400 (c1378) W. Langland (Laud 581) (1869) B. v. 633 (MED) Largenesse..hath hulpe a þousande oute of þe deueles ponfolde [v.rr. pondfolde, punfolde, pounfolde, pynfold]. ?a1425 (a1415) (Harl.) (1917) 101 (MED) Þise han resceyued þe feiþ & falsli gon þerfro and also dryuen beestli men to peyne hem in her pinfold wiþouten goostli mete or drinke. c1550 (1979) xi. 78 Thai hed the romans in that pundfald quhar thai culd nothir fecht nor fle. 1637 J. Milton 1 Confin'd, and pester'd in this pin-fold [i.e. the Earth] here. 1699 E. Ward I. iii Women sat in their pinfolds, begging of custom, with amorous looks and affable tones. 1747 34 If he brought any of the King's Troops into Edinburgh, it was bringing them into a poind-fold to be catched by the Rebels. c1750 J. Nelson 41 You are gone out of the highway of holiness, and have now got into the devil's pinfold. a1807 W. Wordsworth (1959) v. 156 Some busy helper still is on the watch To drive him back and pound him like a Stray Within the pinfold of his own conceit. 1863 C. C. Clarke viii. 211 The restraining of all dissentients within their own pinfold. 1874 ‘G. Eliot’ l. 364 She was likely now to feel herself only in another sort of pinfold than that from which she had been released. 1989 (Nexis) 17 July (Arts section) An excellent supper in the King's Head pub's pinfold of an auditorium was an ideal prelude to some Milton with modern knobs on. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). pinfoldv.Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: pinfold n. Etymology: < pinfold n. Compare fold v.2 Now rare. the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > enclosing or enclosure > enclosing or confining > enclose or confine [verb (transitive)] the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > herding, pasturing, or confining > [verb (transitive)] > drive or put into enclosure 1605 T. Hutton 61 Take heede, howe they pinfold the worde (faith) in this or that sense after their owne private imagination. 1673 R. Leigh 124 They exercise a petty royalty in pinfolding cattle. 1775 (1964) 104 Laggan has used very irregular steps in poynd-folding the cattle of Corkamile. 1785 W. Hutton 38 If our nebbour's stot or stirk break into'th fog, let us net pinfald it. 1836 W. S. Landor I. 228 My name..is a difficult..one to pinfold in a tombstone. 1874 W. Gregor 70 In summer the cattle were early at grass, that they might be either housed or pumphaled before the hour of service. 1929 A. A. MacGregor 338 Poind-folded, seized and impounded; the placing of stray cattle, sheep, etc., in an enclosure. 1997 23 2 A characterization that has tended to pinfold the perspectives of subsequent historians. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1170v.1605 |