Furring

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  • noun. Trimming or lining made of fur.
  • noun. A furlike coating, as on the tongue.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. The preparation of a wall, ceiling, or floor with strips of wood or metal to provide a level substratum for plaster, flooring, or another surface or to create an air space.
  • noun. Strips of material used in this process.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Furs; peltry; trimmings of fur.
  • noun. A deposit resembling fur, as of scale in a steam-boiler or of epithelium on the tongue.
  • noun. In carpentry: The nailing on of thin strips of board, as to joists and rafters, in order to bring them to a level to form an even surface, or in other positions for various purposes.
  • noun. plural The strips thus nailed on.
  • noun. Strips fastened to a solid wall of a house for nailing laths on, and to provide an air-space between the wall and plastering.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. The leveling of a surface, or the preparing of an air space, by means of strips of board or of larger pieces. See fur, v. t., 3.
  • noun. The strips thus laid on.
  • noun. Double planking of a ship's side.
  • noun. A deposit from water, as on the inside of a boiler; also, the operation of cleaning away this deposit.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. Present participle of fur.
  • noun. Parts of clothing made from fur.
  • noun. A coating that resembles fur.
  • noun. A strip of material used to prepare a wall for plastering.
  • noun. double planking of a ship's side
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a furlike coating of matter as on the tongue
  • noun. strip used to give a level surface for attaching wallboard
  • Word Usage
    "Temporarily hard water may be softened by boiling; the lime will be deposited, as may be seen in the "furring" of tea-kettles."