vbl. sb. [f. ASHLAR + -ING1.]
1. ‘In carpentry, a. the short upright quartering fixed in garrets about two feet six inches or three feet high from the floor, being between the rafters and the floor, in order to cut off the acute angle formed by the rafters. b. The upright quarterings seen in some open timber roofs between the inner wall plate and the rafters, is also so called.’ Gwilt, 1842.
1731. in Bailey.
2. Ashlar masonry.
1757. Smeaton, Effects of Lightning, in Phil. Trans., L. 201. The whole ashlering … was torn off from the inner wall.
1823. P. Nicholson, Pract. Build., 310. Ashlaring is a term used by masons to designate the plain stone work of the front of a building.
1876. Gwilt, Archit., § 2284 a. Faced with Portland stone ashlaring.
