fold
/foʊld/ sustantivo B1En español: corral, cerca, aprisco, redil
- A pen or enclosure for sheep or other domestic animals.
- Any enclosed piece of land belonging to a farm or mill; yard, farmyard.
- An enclosure or dwelling generally.
- A group of sheep or goats, particularly those kept in a given enclosure.
- Home, family.
- A church congregation, a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church; also, the Christian church as a whole, the flock of Christ.
- A group of people with shared ideas or goals or who live or work together.
Plural folds
Phrasal verbs y expresiones
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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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