piended

English

Etymology

From piend +‎ -ed.

Adjective

piended (comparative more piended, superlative most piended)

1. (architecture) Describes something that has one or more piends.
   • 1876 August 13, “ARCHITECTURAL ENGINEERING LOCAL PUBLIC WORKS 1876.”, in THE BRITISH ARCHITECT AND Northern Engineer a Record of the Constructive Arts and Organ of the Building and Mining Communities, volume VI, page 173:

     The wall head is finished with a stone cornice, over which is a dado course, having a carved design wrought on face where over staircase wings, and cut stone finials are placed at each piended angle of the staircases.

   • 1917, Frederick Thomas Hodgson, Builders' Reliable Estimator and Contractors' Guide: A Complete Guide for Pricing All Builders' Work, Chicago, Ill: Sears, Roebuck & Company, page 151:

     There are other kinds of hewing also adopted in dressing of stone, such as scabbled, striped, grooved, fluted and piended.

   • 2019, John R Hume, Scotland's Best Churches, Edinburgh University Press, page 8:

     Another distinctive late eighteenth-century development, based on the availability of imported timber and of cheaper slates, was the use of piended (hipped) roofs.