ashlaring

[ ash-ler-ing ]

noun

1. ashlar ( def 1b ).

ashlaring

/ ˈæʃlərɪŋ /

noun

1. ashlars collectively
2. a number of short upright boards forming the wall of a garret, cutting off the acute angle between the rafters and the floor

Word History and Origins

Origin of ashlaring¹

First recorded in 1725–35; ashlar + -ing ¹

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.

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From Project Gutenberg