Noun: piend
| Singular | piend |
| Plural | piends |
Sample Sentences
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…the hip-rafters being termed piend rafters. [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:]
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Figs. 119 to 135 illustrate various types of couples, ordinary, end, hip, and piend, used in the roof… [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:]
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Small but smart two-storey piend-roofed mansion-house built for the Robertsons of Auchleeks c. 1820. [2007, John Gifford, Perth and Kinross (The Buildings of Scotland; 10), Yale University Press, page 164:]
Nouns inflected like piend
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Compare Danish pind (“a peg”). See: Danish Nouns '
pind'.