单词 | penfold |
释义 | penfoldn. Now rare. A fold or pound for penning sheep or cattle; an enclosure for stray livestock; = pinfold n. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal enclosure or house general > [noun] > enclosure > fold or pen > pound pinfolda1170 penfold1382 pounda1425 pound open1530 pound close1567 poind1643 green yard1690 flat-house1698 1382 in M. T. Löfvenberg Contrib. Middle Eng. Lexicogr. & Etymol. (1946) 95 (MED) [The barton of the court, the] penfald, [ways and paths within the manor]. 1575 T. Churchyard 1st Pt. Chippes f. 97v Who is betrapt, in penfold cloes is suer At need to want..boeth ayd and skowts. 1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso i. xlvii. 95 I never had in my Pen-folds above 500 Sheep. 1805 H. J. Pye & S. J. Arnold Prior Claim 67 Having, like sheep, within one penfold fenc'd ye, To-night two Authors set their wits against ye. 1832 Act 2 & 3 William 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. 1871 A. C. Swinburne Halt before Rome in Songs before Sunrise 275 The sheep of the priests, and the cattle That feed in the penfolds of Kings. 1932 T. E. Lawrence tr. Homer Odyssey xv His feet sped him inland to the penfold where slept his swarms of swine about their herdsman. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † penfoldv. Obsolete. rare. 1. transitive. To divide into or as into penfolds. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition or fact of being interjacent > be or make interjacent [verb (transitive)] > partition or form a partition > to form compartments penfold1830 to pound off1873 1830 Eclectic Rev. Oct. 288 The lower area was penfolded by pews. 2. transitive. To confine in a penfold (figurative in quot.). ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > confinement > confine [verb (transitive)] beloukOE loukOE sparc1175 pena1200 bepen?c1225 pind?c1225 prison?c1225 spearc1300 stopc1315 restraina1325 aclosec1350 forbara1375 reclosea1382 ward1390 enclose1393 locka1400 reclusea1400 pinc1400 sparc1430 hamperc1440 umbecastc1440 murea1450 penda1450 mew?c1450 to shut inc1460 encharter1484 to shut up1490 bara1500 hedge1549 hema1552 impound1562 strain1566 chamber1568 to lock up1568 coop1570 incarcerate1575 cage1577 mew1581 kennel1582 coop1583 encagea1586 pound1589 imprisonc1595 encloister1596 button1598 immure1598 seclude1598 uplock1600 stow1602 confine1603 jail1604 hearse1608 bail1609 hasp1620 cub1621 secure1621 incarcera1653 fasten1658 to keep up1673 nun1753 mope1765 quarantine1804 peg1824 penfold1851 encoop1867 oubliette1884 jigger1887 corral1890 maroon1904 to bang up1950 to lock down1971 1851 I. Taylor Wesley & Methodism 105 Those partitionments within which soulless religionists are content to be penfolded. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.1382v.1830 |
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