verge-board Arch.
Also dial. varge-.
[f. verge n.1 13 d.]
= barge-board.
| 1827 T. F. Hunt Designs for Parsonage Houses 5 Ornamental barge-boards... [Note] By some called verge-boards. 1833 Loudon Encycl. Archit. §470 Sixty-six feet lineal one and a half inch verge board to gables. 1835 F. Goodwin Rural Archit. Add. 2 The Verge Boards to be cut out of 2½ inch Timber plank, well spiked to the rafter-ends of the Roof and Purlins. 1861 B. Poste in Archæol. Cantiana IV. 116 There are mouldings on the verge-boards of the pediment. 1910 Athenæum 3 Sept. 272/2 The..church of Witley has good fourteenth-century verge-boards attached to the gable of its stone porch. |
Hence verge-boarding. rare—1.
| 1835 F. Goodwin Rural Archit. Add. 2 The Gables and Verge Boarding. |