ashlaring

Definitions

noun The act of bedding ashlar in mortar.
noun Ashlar when in thin slabs and made to serve merely as a case to the body of the wall.
noun (Carp.) The short upright pieces between the floor beams and rafters in garrets. See Ashlar, 2.

noun The act of bedding ashlar in mortar.
noun Ashlar when in thin slabs and made to serve merely as a case to the body of the wall.
noun carpentry The short upright pieces between the floor beams and rafters in garrets.

ashlar +‎ -ing

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Winchester the original piers were either clothed with new ashlaring, or the old ashlaring was wrought into new forms and mouldings where possible; while in Canterbury the piers were altogether rebuilt.

The Cathedral Church of Canterbury [2nd ed.]. Hartley Withers 1908
Sometimes he might have been found shaping the mullions of a country mansion, sometimes setting the parapet of a town-hall, sometimes ashlaring an hotel at Sandbourne, sometimes a museum at Casterbridge, sometimes as far down as Exonbury, sometimes at Stoke-Barehills.

Jude the Obscure 1896
The tower certainly stood on the site of the present tower, as Roman ashlaring has been discovered on the north-west side of the north-west tower pier, above the vault of the side aisle, and also portions of a shaft with a base, which probably belonged to the Norman clerestory.

The Cathedral Church of York Bell's Cathedrals: A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Archi-Episcopal See 1896
Sometimes he might have been found shaping the mullions of a country mansion, sometimes setting the parapet of a town-hall, sometimes ashlaring an hotel at Sandbourne, sometimes a museum at Casterbridge, sometimes as far down as Exonbury, sometimes at Stoke-Barehills.

Jude the Obscure 1894