perpeyn

English

Noun

perpeyn

1. Obsolete spelling of perpend (“a stone which passes through a wall from side to side, having two smooth vertical faces”).
   • 1860, G. E. Street, Archæol. Cant., volume III, page 126:

     The altar set on a foot pace about three feet from the east wall, with a low stone perpeyn wall at its back.

Further reading

• James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Perpeyn, perpin”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume VII (O–P), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 717, column 1.