piend

English

Etymology

Compare Danish pind (“a peg”).

Noun

piend (plural piends)

1. Alternative form of peen (“end of a hammer”)
2. (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.

Derived terms

• piended

Anagrams

• Indep., depin, nepid, pined