WordNet
pen up
v. confine in a fold, like sheep [syn: fold]
Usage examples of "pen up".
He brought the pen up and felt his body tensing, readying itself to deliver the killing jab.
IN one corner stood a low cage, designed to pen up veal calves long ago.
As soon as his eyes moved, Smith reached down and snatched the straight pen up from Corbish's desk.
Killing me, of course, getting rid of the only wizard who could pen up his monstrous form.
One was sizable, and Longarm judged it to be a corral, though it was big enough to pen up a small herd of cattle.
He put the pen down, looked at the paper, then slowly picked the pen up again and scrawled a few more lines.
It mean us keep you pen up for five days, and then skin you out for a old-fashioned tribal blowout.