This term, only attested once as a secondary gloss in the Douce glossary and not listed in any of the other dictionaries, was previously interpreted as a derivative of peine² and defined in AND¹ as ‘comb’. Even though the lexeme is listed among household items and glosses Latin pecten, it is now believed that that definition is wrong, and that this citation belongs under penil¹. The medieval gloss serves to highlight the double sense of Latin pecten: both ‘comb’ and ‘pubic bone’ (DMLBS pecten 2160b).