piended

comparative more piended · superlative most piended

1. architectureDescribes something that has one or more piends.

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

   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

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   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.

   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

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

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