parpaln.

Brit.

/ˈpɑːp(ə)l/, U.S.

/ˈpɑrp(ə)l/, Scottish English

/ˈparp(ə)l/

Forms: Middle English parpail; Scottish pre-1700 parpal, pre-1700 parpale, pre-1700 parpel, pre-1700 perpall, pre-1700 porpill, pre-1700 1700s parpell, pre-1700 1700s perpell, pre-1700 1800s parpall, pre-1700 1900s– parple, 1700s 1900s– purple, 1800s perple, 1900s– pairple, 1900s– partal.

Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: parpen n.

Etymology: Variant of parpen n. Sc. National Dict. s.v. pairple n. records the word as still in use in Roxburghshire in 1955. A variant parpar , purpar is also recorded in Older Scots in sense 2.

†1. = parpen n. 1. Obsolete. rare.

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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > disposition of stones or bricks > [noun] > specific stone or brick

hirne-stonec1000

parpen1252

coin1350

coin-stone1350

angler1365

parpal1369

corner-stonea1382

cunye1387

tuss1412

quoin1532

table stone1554

quoining1562

copestone1567

ground-stone1567

lock bandc1582

quinyie1588

perpender1611

whelmer1618

parpen stone1633

capstone1665

headera1684

through1683

quoin-stone1688

stretcher1693

closer1700

bed-stone1723

coping-brick1725

girder1726

footstone1728

heading brick1731

bossage1736

lewis-hole1740

shoulder1744

headstone1745

pawl1753

tail-bond1776

coping-stone1778

slocking-stone1778

throughband1794

through-stone1797

stretching-bond1805

core1823

keystone1823

tail-binder1828

stretching-stone1833

header brick1841

coign1843

pawl-stone1844

bay-stone1845

bonder1845

pillar-stone1854

bond-piece1862

stretcher-brick1867

toothing-stone1875

bond-stone1879

pierpoint1891

jumper1904

tush1905

padstone1944

1369 in L. F. Salzman Building in Eng. (1992) vi. 104 (MED) Assheler parpail.

2. Scottish. In full parpal wall. A partition wall, a partition. Cf. parpen n. 2. Now rare.

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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

a1525 R. Henryson in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 147 I thank ȝone courting and ȝone parpell [?a1500 perpall] wall Off my defence now fra ȝone cruell best.

1556 in A. Maxwell Old Dundee (1891) 177 Ane land..lying south frae the parpale of the fore yett.

1623 in J. Imrie & J. G. Dunbar Accts. Masters of Wks. (1982) II. 150 For putting up of ane roch parpall in my lord chancellaris seller.

1665 in Misc. Sc. Hist. Soc. (1990) XI. 290 All the parple walls..to be syllered on both sydis.

1713 in R. Renwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Glasgow (1908) IV. 506 Making up a broken pend and purple wall and new portall doors, and lyning a purple wall behind the west loft.

a1722 J. Lauder Hist. Notices Sc. Affairs (1848) II. 486 Shee..had broke throw a parpell wall in hir master William Porteous's cellar.

1734 J. J. Vernon Parish & Kirk Hawick (1900) 211 Paid to my son for nealling and mending the footgang, and pitting back the perpell..£0.4.0.

1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Perple, a wooden partition.

1866 H. Scott Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae I. i. 4 A parpall or partition wall was ordered to be built in it.

1923 G. Watson Roxburghshire Word-bk. 228 Pairple, a slight wooden partition, such as occasionally divides a back and front shop.

Derivatives

† parpalling n. (also perplin) Scottish Obsolete rare = sense 2.

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