3. That which is folded together, or which infolds or envelops; embrace.
Shall from your neck unloose his amorous fold.
Shak. Fold net,
a kind of net used in catching birds.
Fold
(Fold), n. [OE. fald, fold, AS. fald, falod.]
1. An inclosure for sheep; a sheep pen.
Leaps o'er the fence with ease into the fold.
Milton. 2. A flock of sheep; figuratively, the Church or a church; as, Christ's fold.
There shall be one fold and one shepherd.
John x. 16.
The very whitest lamb in all my fold.
Tennyson. 3. A boundary; a limit. [Obs.] Creech.
Fold yard,
an inclosure for sheep or cattle.
Fold
(Fold), v. t. To confine in a fold, as sheep.
Fold
(Fold), v. i. To confine sheep in a fold. [R.]
The star that bids the shepherd fold.
Milton.