fold
/foʊld/ verb C2- To confine (animals) in a fold, to pen in.
- To include in a spiritual ‘flock’ or group of the saved, etc.
- To place sheep on (a piece of land) in order to manure it.
He/she/it folds · Past folded · Past participle folded · -ing form folding
Verb forms
- Base form
- fold
- He/she/it
- folds
- Past
- folded
- Past participle
- folded
- -ing form
- folding
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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WOLF, meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay violent hands on him, but to find some plea to justify to the Lamb the Wolf’s right to eat him.
In the evening he was shut up by the shepherd in the fold; the gate was closed, and the entrance made thoroughly secure.
But the shepherd, returning to the fold during the night to obtain meat for the next day, mistakenly caught up the Wolf instead of a sheep, and killed him instantly.
A young Pig was shut up in a fold-yard with a Goat and a Sheep.
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