pentice (plural pentices)
An extension of a building's roof and the protected area beneath; an appentice.
A covered walkway.
(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.
• (appentice): pent
• pectine
Source: Wiktionary
Pen"tice, n. Etym: [F. appentis a penthouse. See Append.]
Definition: A penthouse. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
27 June 2025
(adjective) having four equal sides and four right angles or forming a right angle; “a square peg in a round hole”; “a square corner”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
