pricking-up

English

Noun

pricking-up (uncountable)

(architecture) The first coating of plaster in work of three coats upon laths; a scratch coat. Its surface is scratched once to form a better key for the next coat.
- 1826, Joseph Gwilt, Rudiments of Architecture:
  the First Coat, in plastering of two coat work, is denominated laying when on lath, and rendering when on brick; in three coat work upon lath it is denominated pricking up, and upon brick roughing in

References

“pricking-up”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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