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▪ I. penfold, n.|ˈpɛnfəʊld|
[f. pen n.1 + fold n.2]
A fold for penning sheep or cattle; also, an enclosure for stray cattle, etc., a pound: = pinfold n. (Also fig.)
1575Churchyard Chippes (1817) 154 Who is betrapt in penfold close is sure At neede to want both ayde and skoutes. 1656Earl of Monmouth tr. Boccalini's Advts. fr. Parnass. i. xlvii. (1674) 62, I never had in my Penfolds above 500 Sheep. 1832Act 2 & 3 Will. IV, c. 64 Sched. O. 30 Thence in a straight line to the southern extremity, close by a penfold, of the fence which divides the two fields. 1871Swinburne Songs bef. Sunrise, Halt bef. Rome 275 The sheep of the priests, and the cattle That feed in the penfolds of Kings.
▪ II. ˈpenfold, v.
[f. prec. n.]
trans. a. To divide into or as into penfolds. b. To confine in or as in a penfold: = pinfold v.
1830I. Taylor Unitar. in Logic in Theol. etc. (1859) 82 The whole area is penfolded by pews. 1851― Wesley (1852) 105 Those partitionments within which soulless religionists are content to be penfolded. |