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Ashler [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Hewn or squared stone; also, masonry made of squared or hewn stone.

2. In the United States especially, a thin facing of squared and dressed stone upon a wall of rubble or brick.

Ashlering [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Quartering for lathing to, in garrets, two or three feet high, perpendicular to the floor, and reaching to the under side of the rafters.

Ashlering [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The act of bedding ashlar in mortar.

2. Ashlar when in thin slabs and made to serve merely as a case to the body of the wall.

3. The short upright pieces between the floor beams and rafters in garrets. See Ashlar, 2.