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Definition of Pentice
1. n. A penthouse.
Definition of Pentice
1. Noun. An extension of a building's roof and the protected area beneath. ¹
2. Noun. A covered walkway. ¹
3. Noun. (context: 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. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pentice
1. to provide with a penthouse [v PENTICED, PENTICING, PENTICES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pentice
Literary usage of Pentice
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Church & Manor of Wigan in the County of Lancaster by George Thomas Orlando Bridgeman (1889)
"... imediately after dinner mett att a place (called the pentice), and thence gone
to a sermon preached by some of the citty preachers, whither the greatest ..."
2. Chester as it was by John Saul Howson (1872)
"One of the great features of the church, until the beginning of this century,
was the ancient pentice, or Court House, where Magistrates used to sit, ..."
3. Memoirs of the Civil War in Wales and the Marches by John Roland Phillips (1874)
"the pentice—the Guildhall of Chester—but was CHAP. discharged.1 In South Wales
the influence of the "- Marquis of Worcester was very great, especially in ..."
4. The Public General Acts by Great Britain (1867)
"... and pentice not to interfere with the Assizes or Quarter of the County of the
City as heretofore. Sessions. 4. As to the Executions of Persons ..."
5. Ontario Weekly Reporter and Index-digest by Ontario (1912)
"which there was most danger to be apprehended, arid unless danger from that source
to the men in the shaft was guarded against the pentice from other ..."
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