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PARGETING

Volume 15 · 74 words · 1815 Edition

in building, is used for the plastering of walls, and sometimes for plaster itself.

Pargeting is of various kinds: as 1. White lime and hair mortar laid on bare walls. 2. On bare laths, as in partitioning and plain ceiling. 3. Rendering the insides of walls, or doubling partition walls. 4. Rough-casting on heart laths. 5. Plastering on brick work, with finishing mortar, in imitation of stone work; and the like upon heart laths.