Arch. [app. f. KIRK sb.] The end of a building in which the upper half of the gable is hipped off; the truncated gable and the triangular piece of roof above it; = JERKIN-HEAD, of which it is app. the original form.
1703. T. N., City & C. Purchaser, 22. All Buildings, where there is either a Gable or a Kirkin-Head.
1727. Bradley, Fam. Dict., s.v. Barge-course.
1851. Dict. Archit., I. 53. Any building where there was a gable or Kirkin-head.
