† ˈperpender Masonry. Obs.
[f. perpend, parpen + -er1.]
= parpen.
| 1611 Cotgr., Perpins, perpenders, or perpent stones; stones made iust as thick as a wall, and shewing their smoothed ends on either side thereof. 1755 in Johnson [erroneously explained as ‘a coping stone’]. |