Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A sloping roof projecting from an outer wall, or constructed over a door to shelter it; an awning over a door or window; a penthouse. See appentice and penthouse.
Wiktionary
- n. An extension of a building's roof and the protected area beneath.
- n. A covered walkway.
- n. mining An unexcavated portion of a shaftway, intended to afford protection from falling debris to workers at the bottom of the shaft during certain stages of mining.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete A penthouse.
Etymologies
- From Middle English pentis, pendize, and other spellings; from Anglo-Norman pentiz, aphetic of Old French apentis ("appendage, attached building"), from Medieval Latin appendicium, from Latin appendo ("to hang") (Wiktionary)
Examples
“There, on its wooded height, the pentice roofs glistening in the sunlight, stood Chinon, with its triple castle, so full of the memories of history; and all around spread the wide Tourangeais.”
“_ (Casqued halberdiers in armour thrust forward a pentice of gutted spearpoints.”
Lists
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Castles and Keeps
Shamelessly ripped off from this site and others (to be named hereinafter). (Fair warning: for my own edification, I may add definitions/comments from the site, but you might want to just go there ...
abutment, adulterine, allure, angle-spur, apse, arbalest, arbalestier, arbalist, arcade, arch, armoury, arrow slit and 410 more...
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ulyssean
... as in "by James Joyce"
stately, plump, aloft, gurgling, untonsured, chrysostomos, jowl, parapet, jesuit, indigestion, scutter, noserag and 688 more...
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obsolete (or nearly) due to folk-etym...
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brtom "Casqued halberdiers in armour thrust forward a pentice of gutted spear points." Joyce, Ulysses, 15 Jan 1, 2008