Peel - A small tower; typically, a fortified house on the border
Pellet - Circular boss.
Perpendicular - English architectural style (1330-1540).
Peel tower
- a name given to a defensive tower in and around the Scottish borders (pile).
Peel
originally a palisaded court. Later a stone tower house
Pele tower ...
Barbkin, Barmkin: (1) A walled enclosure surrounding a pele tower. (2) The courtyard attached to a tower house. See peel tower, pele tower, tower house.
Barquette: See barbette.
Peel tower, pele towerSmall defensible tower or tower-house of stone, especially near the Scottish-English border.Pend(Scots): Open-ended ground-level passage through a building.
 See also: Tower, Ground, Vault, House, Retaining Wall
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