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pine end

noun

  1. dialect.
    the gable or gable end of a building
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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The turf-covered cabin, resting on four dry walls, without windows, and pierced only by a low door, with p. 152a very rude fireplace and chimney in “the pine end,” and partially paved with rough stones, once the habitation of the Forest “cabiner,” is now almost entirely superseded by two-floored cottages, often containing not less than four apartments. 

Keeping well under the hedge of elders which surrounded the cwrt or front garden, Cardo passed round to the side—the pine end, as it is called in Wales—and here a little lattice window stood open.

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