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pricking-up

pricking-up noun: the first coating of plaster in work of three coats upon laths; a scratch coat. Its surface is scratched once to form a better key for the next coat.

Noun

pricking-up (uncountable)

  1. The first coating of plaster in work of three coats upon laths; a scratch coat. Its surface is scratched once to form a better key for the next coat.
    • the First Coat, in plastering of two coat work, is denominated laying when on lath, and rendering when on brick; in three coat work upon lath it is denominated pricking up, and upon brick roughing in1826, Joseph Gwilt, Rudiments of Architecture

Questions about pricking-up

What does pricking-up mean?
Pricking-up means the first coating of plaster in work of three coats upon laths; a scratch coat. Its surface is scratched once to form a better key for the next coat.
What part of speech is pricking-up?
Pricking-up is a noun.

Words near pricking-up in the dictionary

  1. pricking at the belt
  2. pricking one's ears
  3. pricking out
  4. pricking up
  5. pricking up one's ears
  6. pricking-up
  7. prickingly
  8. prickings
  9. prickish
  10. prickishness
  11. prickle

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