perpin

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English

Noun

perpin

Obsolete spelling of perpend (“a stone which passes through a wall from side to side, having two smooth vertical faces”).
- 1688, R. Holme, Armoury, book iii, page 111/1:
  Perpin, are less than the size of Ashlers.
- ibidem, page 457/1:
  A perpin wall, is a Single stone wall.

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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