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Pen up   /pɛn əp/   Listen
Pen up

verb
1.
Confine in a fold, like sheep.  Synonym: fold.






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"Pen up" Quotes from Famous Books



... not going to Bentley Hall to sit mewed up in my mistress' chamber, turning up the whites of my eyes, and singing Psalms through my nose. I mean to lead a jolly life there, I can tell you, for all Grandmother. It really is too bad of old folks, that can't knock about and enjoy their lives, to pen up young maids like so many sheep. I shall never be young but once, and I want ...
— The Gold that Glitters - The Mistakes of Jenny Lavender • Emily Sarah Holt



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