OriginCompare Danish pind (“a peg”).
- ScotlandThe 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.”
“Figs. 119 to 135 illustrate various types of couples, ordinary, end, hip, and piend, used in the roof…”
“Small but smart two-storey piend-roofed mansion-house built for the Robertsons of Auchleeks c. 1820.”
Formspiends(plural)