Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Noting posts, and other timber, which have been attacked by the dry-rot fungus Merulius lachrymans. See
dry rot , 1.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective U.S. Affected with dry rot; reduced to dust by rot. See Dry rot, under
dry .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective US Affected with
dry rot ; reduced todust by rot.
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Examples
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Several people said, however, that plenty of it could be obtained at the old Plancher barn, for the braces of that barn had been made of cleft red oak, and were "all powder-posted."
The Junior Classics — Volume 8 Animal and Nature Stories William Patten 1902
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"Some, of course; the dead trees, and the worm-eaten, powder-posted ones, will fall in the high winds, naturally.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859 Various
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