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Parpal(l, Perpall, n. Also: porp- and -ale, -el(l, -ill. [Sc. var. of Parpan n. Also in the mod. south Sc. dial. as pairple.? Uncommon in this form north of the Tay valley: see quot. 1593, sense a, for our only northern example.]

A partition-wall. = Parpan n. 2. a. Parpall-wall. b. Ellipt.a. a1500 Henr. Fab. 348 (A).
I thank ȝone courting and ȝone parpell [Ch. perpall, Bann. parpane] wall Off my defence now fra ȝone cruell best 1550–1 Ayr Common Good Acc. MS.
For the perpell wall takene down xxx d. 1554 Edinb. Guild Ct. 14 July.
To … away tak the perpell wall of stane now standand betuix the twa [booths] lyand vnder the nether stair 1557–8 Edinb. Old Acc. I. 261.
To ane wrycht for downe taking of the myln gawill and upputting of the perpell wall 1559 Rentale Dunkeld. 354. 1560 Old Dundee I. 53.
The craft would have the house biggit with ane grite parpale wall in the midst 1560 Edinb. B. Rec. III. 66.
To repair … ane stane wall viz. ane parpall wall of … fute thyk 1580 Cochran-Patrick Coinage I. 247.
To Johnne Robertsoun masoun for biging of ane parpall wall in the prentinghous 1580 M. Works Acc. (ed.) I. 309.
To the wricht for the making of the vindo and the parpall wall and the dur 1586 Glasgow Prot. IX. 151.
[The] lynaris past and veseit ane parpall wall betuix the said William and Conald Struderis 1586 Perth B. Ct. 3 June.
Tuiching ane parpall vall at the said Johnis ȝett 1593 Prot. Bk. J. Inglis 18 May.
Fywe daillis with xiii brokin peces of fir burdis tane of ane parpall vall 1597 Breadalbane Doc. 164 b.
For tua parpall walls of wattillis solit 1597–8 Edinb. B. Rec. V. 210.
To caus mak parpell wallis of daillis in the hie schole for parting the sam in foure scoles 1598 Ib. 231. 1610 Kirkcudbr. B. Rec. 64. 1623 Linlithgow B. Rec. 21 Feb.
Ane parpall wall of daillis to be maid betuix the quheit milne and the malt milne 1654 Edinb. Test. LXVIII. 16.
The timber of … ane parpall wall 1657 Edinb. B. Rec. IX. 56. 1668 Reg. Privy C. 3 Ser. II. 482.
Parpelwalls 1676 Glasgow Chart. II. 188 n.
And divisions of parpall walls of ston 1684 Lauder Notices Affairs 486.
Shee … had broke throw a parpell wall in hir master William Porteous's cellarb. 1556 Old Dundee II. 177.
Ane land … lying south frae the parpale of the fore yett perteining to the chaplainry [etc.] 1596 Bk. Univ. Kirk III. 861.
Provydeing that they wald fall to presentlie to the divisioun be a parpall 1623 M. Works Acc. (ed.) II. 150.
For putting up of ane roch parpall in my lord chancellaris seller 1667 Kelso Baillie Ct. 36.
That he sall put vp ane cattit porpill in his hous