piended
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "There are other kinds of hewing also adopted in dressing of stone, such as scabbled, striped, grooved, fluted and piended."
- "Another distinctive late eighteenth-century development, based on the availability of imported timber and of cheaper slates, was the use of piended (hipped) roofs."
Etymology
From piend + -ed.
Inflected Forms
more piended (comparative)
most piended (superlative)