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- noun Plural form of
studding .
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Examples
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And between those studdings I laid it up on the sill.
Oral History Interview with John Wesley Snipes, 1976 September 20 and November 20. Interview H-98. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007). By John Wesley Snipes John Wesley Snipes 1976
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First, an ordinary frame building with 2x4 inch studdings sheathed on the outside with drop siding with No. 3 flooring.
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"How are we going to find them?" asked the girl, as the two drew their mounts to a stand on the top of a low ridge and gazed out over the sea of similar ridges that rolled and spread before them as far as the eye could reach in three directions -- bare coulees, and barer ridges, with here and there a low bare hill, all black and red and grey, with studdings of mica flashing in the rays of the afternoon sun.
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The Macedonian set her foretop-mast and top-gallant studdings sails and bore away in chase, [Footnote: Capt.
The Naval War of 1812 Or the History of the United States Navy during the Last War with Great Britain to Which Is Appended an Account of the Battle of New Orleans Theodore Roosevelt 1888
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Up there, my lads, set top-gallant studding sails, topmast studdings to hand -- rig out the booms -- keep as you go now, my lads -- we shall be well in-shore of them, and out of the range of the batteries. "
Mr. Midshipman Easy Frederick Marryat 1820
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Up there, my lads, set top-gallant studding sails, top-mast studdings to hand-rig out the booms -- keep as you go now, my lad -- we shall be well inshore of them, and out of the range of the batteries. "
Mr. Midshipman Easy Frederick Marryat 1820
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