Architecture and Building. A downwardly projecting ornamental knop or terminal, spec. a boss carved with a stem so as to hang down from a vault…

= honeycomb work n. at compounds 2.

(a) a natural structure, decoration, ornamentation, etc., having a honeycomb pattern, or made to resemble honeycomb in some way; (b) Architecture…

Used of other architectural features having a similar appearance or function. Obsolete. rare.

pendants collectively, or as a kind of decoration.

Architecture. (See quot. 1895.)

Architecture. A pendant or pendant-post.

(see quot.).