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Definition of perpent - 2 dictionary results

per⋅pent

  [pur-puhnt]
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–noun
perpend 1 .

per⋅pend

1  [pur-puhnd]
–noun
a large stone passing through the entire thickness of a wall.
Also, parpen, perpent.
Also called through stone.

Origin:
1225–75; var. of parpen, parpend, ME perpein, parpein (late ME perpend- in compound) a stone dressed on more than one side < OF perpein, parpain, perh. repr. ML parpanus < ?
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