piend

plural piends

1. alternativeAlternative form of peen (“end of a hammer”).
2. ScotlandarchitectureThe angle or edge formed where two surfaces meet. More specifically, the sloped edges of a pavilion or hip roof.

   …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

   2 more examples

   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

   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