parpen walln.
/ˌpɑːp(ᵻ)n ˈwɔːl/, U.S. /ˌpɑrp(ə)n ˈwɔl/, Scottish English /ˌpɑrp(ᵻ)n ˈwɔl/ Chiefly Scottish and English regional (northern).
A wall built of parpen stones; (hence) a wall one brick thick; any thin wall, esp. an internal wall or partition. Also (Scottish): a parapet wall, esp. of a bridge.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > wall of building > [noun] > interior or partition-wall
woughc888
wallOE
middle wallc1384
parclose1387
partitionc1450
screena1475
hallan1490
parpen wall1506
parpal walla1525
midwall1589
partition wall1605
inwall?1611
parpalling1621
screen work1648
sconce1695
stud partition1775
screening1850
scrap screen1873
parclose screen1889
1506–7 Rentale Dunkeldense f. 35 Per edificacione lie perpane wall inter penates in hospicio Edinburgi v s.
1554–5 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1871) II. 297 Ane braid daill to be ane porpen-wall to the litill hous of the portell in the counsall-hous.
1615 in H. M. Paton Accts. Masters of Wks. (1957) I. 360 Tua divisiouns of parpan walles..of lath and roufe spares.
a1669 ( Indenture Fotheringay in Dugdale's Monasticon Anglicanum (1846) VI. 1414/2 To the two respownds of the sayd qwere shal be two perpeyn-walls joyning of free-stone, clene wroght.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 457/1 A perpin wall, is a Single stone wall.
1720 R. Wodrow Life R. Bruce in R. Bruce Serm. (1843) 80 The King..discharged the taking down of a parpan wall in the Great Kirk, to enlarge the East Kirk.
1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. at Parpen The parapet of a bridge is called a parpane, or parpane-wa', Aberd.
1860 G. E. Street in Archaeologia Cantiana 3 126 The altar set on a foot pace about three feet from the east wall, with a low stone perpeyn wall at its back.
1903 Rites of Durham 195 At Rievaulx the five eastern altars were divided by perpent walls of stone.
1977 J. S. Curl Eng. Archit. 126/1 Parpent wall, a strong or substantial partition wall.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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