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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
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