kirkin-head Arch.
[app. f. kirk n.]
The end of a building in which the upper half of the gable is hipped off; the truncated gable and the triangular piece of roof above it; = jerkin-head, of which it is app. the original form.
| 1703 T. N. City & C. Purchaser 22 All Buildings, where there is either a Gable or a Kirkin-Head. 1727 Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Barge-course. 1851 Dict. Archit. I. 53 Any building where there was a gable or Kirkin-head. |