pinfold.
/pin-fohld/US // ˈpɪnˌfoʊld //UK // (ˈpɪnˌfəʊld) //
钉子户,销金窟,销路,蛲虫
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n.noun · 名词
- 1.
- ›a pound for stray animals.
- ›a fold, as for sheep or cattle.
- ›a place of confinement or restraint.
v.verb · 有主动词
- 1.
- ›to confine in or as in a pinfold.
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Examples
Would you have Providence to shoot you here sitting, like so many hares hunted into a pinfold?
Why, they must have been fairly starved on purpose; nay, they must have been in the pinfold all the time he had been laid up.
Pinder, the man in charge of the pound or pinfold, was the name of a famous wicket-keeper of the last century.
Like sheep hounded into their pinfold; bleating for mercy, where is no mercy, but only a whetted knife?
He was a servant of corruption, holding a candle to disorderly walkers and happy sinners on their way into the devil's pinfold.
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