piend
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English
Etymology
Compare Danish pind (“a peg”).
Noun
piend (plural piends)
- Alternative form of peen (“end of a hammer”)
- (Scotland, architecture) The angle or edge formed where two surfaces meet. More specifically, the sloped edges of a pavilion or hip roof.
- 1868, Villa and Cottage Architecture: Select Examples of Country and Suburban Residence Recently Erected. With a Full Descriptive Notice of Each Bulding …, Blackie & Son, page xii:
- …the hip-rafters being termed piend rafters.
- 1900 February 23, “The Waverly Station at Edinburgh of the North British Railway.”, in Engineering: An Illustrated Weekly Journal, volumes LXIX — FROM JANUARY TO JUNE 1900, page 248:
- Figs. 119 to 135 illustrate various types of couples, ordinary, end, hip, and piend, used in the roof…
- 2007, John Gifford, Perth and Kinross (The Buildings of Scotland; 10), Yale University Press, page 164:
- Small but smart two-storey piend-roofed mansion-house built for the Robertsons of Auchleeks c. 1820.
