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per⋅pend

1[pur-puhnd]
–noun
a large stone passing through the entire thickness of a wall.
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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