Arch. Also dial. varge-. [f. VERGE sb.1 13 d.] = BARGE-BOARD.
1833. Loudon, Encycl. Archit., § 470. Sixty-six feet lineal one and a half inch verge board to gables.
1835. F. Goodwin, Rural Archit., Add. 2. The Verge Boards to be cut out of 21/2 inch Timber plank, well spiked to the rafter-ends of the Roof and Purlins.
1861. B. Poste, in Archæol. Cantiana, IV. 116. There are mouldings on the verge-boards of the pediment.
1910. Athenæum, 3 Sept., 272/2. The … church of Witley has good fourteenth-century verge-boards attached to the gable of its stone porch.
Hence Verge-boarding. rare–1.
1835. F. Goodwin, Rural Archit., Add. 2. The Gables and Verge Boarding.
