ashlaring, vbl. n.
(ˈæʃlərɪŋ)
Also ashlering.
[f. ashlar n. + -ing1.]
1. ‘In carpentry, a. the short upright quartering fixed in garrets about two feet six inches or three feet high from the floor, being between the rafters and the floor, in order to cut off the acute angle formed by the rafters. b. The upright quarterings seen in some open timber roofs between the inner wall plate and the rafters, is also so called.’ Gwilt 1842.
| 1731 in Bailey. 1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 54/2 Ashlering, the vertical timbers or quarterings, 2½ to 3 feet long, fixed in attics between floor-joists and rafters as supports for a partition wall, to cut off the sharp angle under the lower end of the rafter. |
2. Ashlar masonry.
| 1757 Smeaton Effects of Lightning in Phil. Trans. L. 201 The whole ashlering..was torn off from the inner wall. 1823 P. Nicholson Pract. Build. 310 Ashlaring is a term used by masons to designate the plain stone work of the front of a building. 1858 Skyring's Builders' Prices 91 To ashlering take plain work to face, bed, and joint. 1876 Gwilt Archit. §2284 a, Faced with Portland stone ashlaring. |