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ashlaring
[ ash-ler-ing ]
ashlaring
/ ˈæʃ±ôÉ™°ùɪŋ /
noun
- ashlars collectively
- a number of short upright boards forming the wall of a garret, cutting off the acute angle between the rafters and the floor
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of ashlaring1
Example Sentences
Ashlaring has been only sparingly used for quoins and dressings of door- and window-openings, and the exterior of this keep chiefly shows a broad expanse of roughly set Kentish rag-stone.
In both, a Norman nave was to be transformed; but at Winchester the original piers were either clothed with new ashlaring, or the old ashlaring was wrought into new forms and mouldings where possible; while in Canterbury the piers were altogether rebuilt.
Sometimes he might have been found shaping the mullions of a country mansion, sometimes setting the parapet of a town-hall, sometimes ashlaring an hotel at Sandbourne, sometimes a museum at Casterbridge, sometimes as far down as Exonbury, sometimes at Stoke-Barehills.
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