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penning

/ˈpɛnɪŋ/ noun C2
  1. Writing; literary composition. · the idle pennings of a poetic daydreamer

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A SHEPHERD penning his sheep in the fold for the night was about to shut up a wolf with them, when his Dog perceiving the wolf said, “Master, how can you expect the sheep to be safe if you admit a wolf into the fold?”
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 56 · B2

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