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ASHLAR

Volume 2 · 55 words · 1797 Edition

a term used among builders; by which they mean common or free stones, as they come out of the quarry, of different lengths and thicknesses.

ASHLERING among builders, signifies quartering to lath to, in garrets, about two and a half, or three feet high, perpendicular to the floor, up to the under-side of the rafters.