perpeyn

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English

Noun

perpeyn

Obsolete spelling of perpend (“a stone which passes through a wall from side to side, having two smooth vertical faces”).
- 1860, G. E. Street, Archæol. Cant., volume III, page 126:
  The altar set on a foot pace about three feet from the east wall, with a low stone perpeyn wall at its back.

Further reading

James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928), “Perpeyn, perpin”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume VII (O–P), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 717, column 1.

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