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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.