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Pentice vs Prentice - What's the difference?

pentice | prentice |

As a noun pentice

is an extension of a building's roof and the protected area beneath an appentice.

As a proper noun prentice is

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pentice

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.
  • Synonyms

    * (appentice)

    prentice

    English

    Noun

    (s)
  • (obsolete) An apprentice.
  • * 1682 , John Lacy, Sir Hercules Buffoon, or The Poetical Squire , Act II, scene iv,
  • Faith, bind him prentice to a lord; by the same rule he'll be a lord when he's out of his time.

    Verb

    (prentic)
  • (obsolete) To apprentice.
  • Synonyms

    * apprentice, 'prentice