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Webster 1913 Edition


Pricking-up

Prick′ing-up

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Noun.
(Arch.)
The first coating of plaster in work of three coats upon laths. Its surface is scratched once to form a better key for the next coat. In the United States called
scratch coat
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Brande & C.

Definition 2024


pricking-up

pricking-up

English

Noun

pricking-up (uncountable)

  1. (architecture) 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.
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