perpin

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perpin

  1. 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.

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